Laravel REST Controller

General implementation for Laravel 5 RESTful controllers.

Installation

Require the package using composer:

composer require matt-daneshvar/rest

Use Rest, implement the newModel() and optionally define validation $rules.

<?php

use App/Models/Task;
use MattDaneshvar/Rest/Rest;

class TasksController
{
  use Rest;

  protected $rules = ['name' => 'required|max:200'];

  protected function newModel()
  {
    return new Task();
  }
}

The TasksController in the example above will now have implementation for generic RESTful verbs. With the current defaults:

• TasksController@create will return the tasks.create view.
• TasksController@store will validate the request against the $rules and persist a Task object.
• TasksController@edit will retrieve the specified model by id and return the tasks.edit view with ['task' => $task] parameters.
• etc.

Notes

This package is still under development and is not recommended for use in production.