Laravel REST API 和前端

Question

I created a project in Laravel, small database and added REST API in laravel to connect mobile app with database. What should I use to get data from database in web application? Using laravel models is easy but is that a good way to create another controllers to handle forms etc instead using rest api controllers? Thanks

Answer 1

Laravel also support for Restful API in own way. for this

• you create your controller in Api folder: php artisan make:controller Api/TestController

• define your routes in routes/api.php :

   Route::group(['namespace' => 'Api'], function (){ Route::group(['prefix' => '/test'], function () { Route::get('/', 'TestController@list); Route::get('/single', 'TestController@single'); }); });

• create a resource collection for data that is an array of collection

  php artisan make:resource Api/Collections TestCollection this command create a collection in folder app/Http/Resources/Api/Collections open in and change toArray($request) function and add a function with($request) like following code :

   public function toArray($request) { return $this->collection->map(function ($item){ return [ 'id' => $item->id, // $item is instance of Test model 'name' => $item->name, 'description' => $item->description, ]; }); } public function with($request) // optional : this method return with of response { return [ 'status' => true ]; }

• so go to TestController and create a method for get all tests:

   public function list() { $tests = Test::all(); // your Test Model return new TestCollection($test); // TestCollection you created above }

this is return a json object that contains array of tests.

• for get a single test : php artisan make:resource Api/Resources TestResource

  then go to TestResource in app/Http/Resources/Api/Collections and change code like following:

   public function toArray($request) { return [ 'id' => $this->id, 'name' => $this->name, // $this is instance of Test model 'description' => $this->description, 'body' => $this->body, 'diff_name' => $this->name_in_table // you can change the name differ from name in model instance ]; }

so go to TestController and create a method for single test

public function single(Request $request)
{
    $test = Test::findOrFail($request->id);
    return new TestResource($test);
}

this a summary of Rest API in laravel. Hope you find it useful

Answer 2

With laravel, you can reuse your api endpoints by taking advantage of the CreateFreshApiToken middleware .

Then you will only need to create new controllers and methods to display views. All of the CRUD stuff can be reused.