Controllers in Laravel

Controllers in Laravel — a practical guide to Laravel controllers with clear examples you can reuse in real projects.

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Short description

Controllers group related request-handling logic. Instead of long closures in `web.php`, you call controller methods.

Create a controller

php artisan make:controller PostController

Example controller

<?php

namespace AppHttpControllers;

use AppModelsPost;
use IlluminateHttpRequest;

class PostController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $posts = Post::latest()->get();
        return view('posts.index', compact('posts'));
    }

    public function show(Post $post)
    {
        return view('posts.show', compact('post'));
    }

    public function store(Request $request)
    {
        // validate + save
    }
}

Wire routes

use AppHttpControllersPostController;

Route::get('/posts', [PostController::class, 'index']);
Route::get('/posts/{post}', [PostController::class, 'show']);
Route::post('/posts', [PostController::class, 'store']);

Resource controller (shortcut)

php artisan make:controller ProductController --resource

Route::resource('products', ProductController::class);