Where to create class

@Sinnbeck ok thankyou one more confusion how would i call that function in controller by using $this-> or something other?

If you can show the class you created, I can better help

But an example

$foo = new Foo();
$foo->doStuff();

@Sinnbeck no i don't created the class till now

i may clear that what i wanted to do is like we embed the google authenticate page to aur laravel project something like that i wanted to do but in my case the google authenticate page will my class now how and where i created that class?

@laksh Sorry I am not following. I dont see how a class and googles authentication page are connected? As far as I know, google has this page at their site. And laravel supports logging in with google if thats what you want.

https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/socialite

@laksh personally I use actions for such code https://freek.dev/1371-refactoring-to-actions

Jetstream uses these also

@Sinnbeck will they work like that as i explained?

@laksh If I understand you correctly then yes. But maybe read the article and judge for yourself

@Sinnbeck i checked it works on some functions but not on all

@laksh not sure what that means but ok

@Sinnbeck i mean to that actions will work on some functions but not on all functions

@laksh ok if you want help I suggest giving an example. But it seems that you are looking into services instead?

@Sinnbeck yess i am looking for services class and i don't know what to do for that can you please tell me?

@laksh what do you mean by a service exactly? Laravel does not have service classes but you can just add your own folder with your own classes. Do you mean service providers or the service container?

@Sinnbeck i don't know much about the service provider or service container can you tell how can i create class like service class or is there any similarity between service classes and service provider or service container

@laksh That completely depends on your definition of a "Service class". If you can explain what you mean by a service, I can tell you if they are the same (most likely not)

You can also read the docs:

• Service container: https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/container
• Service providers: https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/providers

@Sinnbeck so, according to me the definition of service class is like i made a class file and put functions in that class and then if i want to use that function then create object of that class and then call the function using object of that class so is there any way to made a service class like this?

@laksh Still not 100% sure what you mean. The service container can make any object if thats what you want?

$object = resolve(SomeClass::class);
$object->someMethod();

Or can you give a real world example?

@Sinnbeck i made a service class simply in app folder and its working

@Sinnbeck can you help me that how to make a constructor like suppose i made a service file and whenever i call a function from that service file constructor will generate a token and put it in session did you have any way that will help me

Thanks in advance

@laksh Make a directory app/Services and add a file like MyFirstService.php

Give it some content like

<?php
namespace App\Services;

class MyFirstService
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        session(['foo' => 'bar']);
    }
}

@laksh the "Free"" course that @lancashireman mentioned will explain how to create classes and all about the service container so you can use dependency injection.

If new to php, I suggest taking the php basic course first, also free.

https://laracasts.com/series/php-for-beginners

@jlrdw sorry, but i doesn't find about service container or service class anywhere in course can you please more explain it

@laksh There's a chapter in the documentation: https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/container

@illeas yeah and whenever i call a function from that class it firstly generate a token and then set it in the session

@laksh Maybe similar with your question https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/adding-a-custom-class

@illeas umm no it is not similar to my question it is different can you please suggest any different answer