Resource Controller with Resource Route in Laravel

In this short post, we will go over on How to create a resourceful controller in Laravel and also how to define a single line resource route in the web.php file.

Resource Controller

With Laravel, we get the option to create a CRUD controller, which has blank methods for all the default CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete) by just executing a single artisan command.

php artisan make:controller productController --resource

This artisan command will create a new controller with the name productController which has all the default CRUD methods.

If you are looking to create a resource controller when generating the Model file. Use this command.

php artisan make:model product -r

This artisan command will create a model Product.php, and a resource controller productController.php.

Resource Route

Here is how you can define the resource route in the web.php file

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

This code line works like magic, it will automatically assign many action verbs to the resource controller. Since we generated a resource controller, this line will internally map route names to a different controller actions.