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Developing Fast and Secure APIs in Laravel

CRUD at Your Fingertips

Discover one of the many ways to keep your resource controllers clean and use various Laravel features to easily offer the CRUD functionality.

We'll cover the following...

Add a restaurant

First, we will cover the add restaurant functionality.

PHP
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\Http\Requests\RestaurantValidation;
use App\Models\Restaurant;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
class RestaurantController extends Controller
{
    public function store(RestaurantValidation $request): array
    {
        $restaurant = Restaurant::create(array_merge($request->validated(), [
            'user_id' => Auth::id(),
        ]));
        return [
            'restaurant_id' => $restaurant->id,
        ];
    }
    // ...
    // Methods to handle list, update, and archive functionality
    // are not implemented for brevity. API calls for them will
    // not work while you're running code from this widget.
}
  1. The RestaurantValidation form request class was already covered in the last lesson.
  2. We append the user_id to the validated data array to create a new restaurant record.
  3. Return the auto-generated id of the new restaurant for reference.

List restaurants

Time to cover one more super helpful Laravel feature: API resources. We do not always need to share all the columns of the table in the API responses. ...