Controllers

Question 1

Where are controllers stored? (by default)

Answer 1

app/Http/Controllers

Question 2

Create a controller using Artisan!

Answer 2

php artisan make:controller NAME

Question 3

Given a controller named “UserController” and the route “/user/{id}”, create a Route::get that uses the show method of said controller!

Answer 3

Route::get('/user/{id}', [UserController::class, 'show']);

Question 4

What should the method name be if you have a controller dedicated to a singular action?

Answer 4

(in class of said controller)
public function \_\_invoke() { // ... }

Question 5

Given the route “/server” and the single function controller “ProvisionServer”, make a Route::post that invokes the function!

Answer 5

Route::post('/server', ProvisionServer::class);

Question 6

Assign the middleware “auth” to this route:
Route::get(‘/profile’, [UserController::class, ‘show’]);

Answer 6

Route::get('/profile', [UserController::class, 'show'])->middleware('auth');

Question 7

Which interface should you implement to specify middleware within your controller class?

Answer 7

HasMiddleware

Question 8

Create a controller using Artisan, that assigns the “create”, “read”, “update” and “delete” routes to said controller!

Answer 8

php artisan make:controller ExampleController --resource

Question 9

Register a resource’s CRUD (create, read, update and delete) methods in a route!

Answer 9

Route::resource('example', ExampleController::class);

Question 10

Which method should you call while defining a resource route to not let the page go to the default 404 page when a resource model is not found?

Answer 10

missing();

Question 11

Include soft deleted models in this resource route:
Route::resource(‘photos’, PhotoController::class);

Answer 11

Route::resource('example', ExampleController::class)->withTrashed();

Question 12

Make a controller using Artisan, that type-hints a model instance!

Answer 12

php artisan make:controller ExampleController --model=ExampleModel --resource

Question 13

Which option do you need to add to your Artisan command for the generation of a form request class for a controllers storage and update methods!

Answer 13

--requests

Question 14

How can you limit the actions of a resource route to a specific subset of actions?

Answer 14

INSERT ROUTE->only([
    'action one', 'action two', ...
]);

Question 15

How can you exclude specific actions of a resource route?

Answer 15

INSERT ROUTE->except([
    'action one', ...
]);

Question 16

Declare a resource route that will be consumed by APIs!

Answer 16

Route::apiResource('example', ExampleController::class);

Question 17

Register multiple API resource controllers at once!

Answer 17

Route::apiResources([
    'example1' => Example1Controller::class,
    'example2' => Example2Controller::class,
]);

Question 18

Generate an API resource controller using Artisan!

Answer 18

php artisan make:controller ExampleController –api

Question 19

What do you need to do to define a route to a nested resource?

What will the URIs look like?

Answer 19

Route::resource('examples.beispiele', ExampleController::class);

/examples/{example}/beispiele/{beispiel}

Question 20

Which method enables automatic scoping for a nested model binding?

Answer 20

scoped()

Question 21

What is shallow nesting?

Answer 21

Often, it is not entirely necessary to have both the parent and the child IDs within a URI since the child ID is already a unique identifier. When using unique identifiers such as auto-incrementing primary keys to identify your models in URI segments, you may choose to use “shallow nesting”

Question 22

Which method do you need to use to use shallow nesting?

Answer 22

INSERT ROUTE->shallow();

Question 23

How can you name the actions of controllers?

Answer 23

INSERT ROUTE->names([
    'example' => 'examples.beispiele'
]);

Question 24

Create a scoped nested resource!

What will the URIs look like?

Answer 24

Route:.resource('examples.beispiele', ExampleController::class)->scoped([
    'beispiel' => 'spezifischesbeispiel',
]);

/examples/{example}/beispiele/{beispiel:spezifischesbeispiel}

Question 25

Which language will Route::resource create resource URIs in by default?

Answer 25

English

Question 26

How can you localize the action verbs of a Route::resource? Localize the actions "create" and "edit" into German!

Answer 26

(at the beginning of the boot method within App\Providers\AppServiceProvider) ``` Route::resourceVerbs([ 'create' => 'erstellen', 'edit' => 'bearbeiten', ]); ```

Question 27

What are resources, that only have a singular instance, called?

Answer 27

Singleton resources

Question 28

Register a singleton resource controller route!

Answer 28

`Route::singleton('example', ExampleController::class);`

Question 29

Which method should you use so that you can turn a singleton resource route into something, that also has a DELETE route?

Answer 29

`Route::singleton(...)->creatable();`

Question 30

Which 3 action routes are not registered for singleton resources, that do exist for singleton...->creatable resources?

Answer 30

create, store and destroy

Question 31

What should you use instead of "creatable()" if you don't want create and store action routes to be defined, but do want the registration of the destroy route?

Answer 31

`Route::singleton(...)->destroyable();`

Question 32

Create a singleton resource for an API!

Answer 32

`Route::apiSingleton('example', ExampleController::class);`

Question 33

How can you register the store and destroy routes for an API singleton resource?

Answer 33

`Route::apiSingleton(...)->creatable();`