CRUD Practices

@DarrenParker1988 Have a look at this http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/controllers#restful-resource-controllers

and then map them on routes

Route::resource('articles', 'ArticlesController');

Have a look then at

php artisan routes:list

and then pick and choose which RESTful methods to implement in your controller for the specific resource.

Well it depends on the size of your application. I always like to keep everything organized and therefor I keep every CRUD action on it's own method in a specific controller on that subject. However it's find if you don't want to do that.

That's great, thanks guys.

I was just curious if I should always use a restful controller for any models CRUD operations.

Was curious if passing validated data to a service to be persisteted was a good or bad thing from a controller like for example PageController.

@DarrenParker1988 The short answer is 'DEPENDS' on your app. And the long answer is all the responses you got here.

Unless you got further questions, don't forget to mark the thread. :D

Best of luck

@sid405 When declaring a restful resource, you can use the only key to specify that only some routes should be used, for example:

Route::resource('posts', ['only' => ['create', 'store', 'show'] ]);

Otherwise, your route list will show you routes that don't actually work. Misleading documentation is worse than no documentation.

@thepsion5 correct as usual

@thepsion5 I think @sid405 is trying to do something like this, and where this is a best practise or not

Route::get('something', 'SomeController@something');
Route::get('nothing', 'SomeController@nothing');

As you can see something and nothing are not related to each other like user/create and user/update and therefor they don't belong to each other. But if you have a few of these functions and routes you maybe want to create a single controller to group them instead of creating multiple controllers.

Now I always have a controller for pages, then I can still group stuff while they can be anything. This might work for you as well.

The answer totally depends on how you need to turn your web application. My general way of defining CRUD application is following. https://investmentnovel.com/laravel-5-7-crud-example-tutorial/

Although some devs are using third-party packages to develop crud application.