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Inventory Management and Organization

Discover how to build a basic inventory management system in Laravel by defining routes, creating controllers, and managing product data with migrations and views. Learn to handle product creation, updates, and deletion to efficiently organize inventory for e-commerce applications.

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Introduction

To configure a basic structure to handle inventory management in Laravel, the app should contain simple features like creating, listing, modifying, and deleting products. Follow these steps to create a basic inventory management in Laravel.

Step 1: Define routes

The following routes (routes/web.php) will make sure that the four basic functionalities can be mapped to the required features.

 1. <?php

 2. use App\Http\Controllers\ProductController;

 3. 

 4. Route::get('/products', [ProductController::class,'index'])->name('products.index');

 5. Route::get('/products/create', [ProductController::class,'create']);

 6. Route::post('/products',[ProductController::class,'store']);

 7. Route::get('/products/{id}/edit', [ProductController::class,'edit']);

 8. Route::put('/products/{id}', [ProductController::class,'update']);

 9. Route::delete('/products/{id}',[ProductController::class,'destroy'])->name('products.destroy');

10. ?>
Routes for inventory

In the code:

  • Line 4: We define a route using the Route facade. It specifies that when an HTTP GET request is made to the /products URL, the index method of the ProductController class should be called. The ->name('products.index') part assigns a name to the route, making it easier to reference in the code.

  • Line 5: We define another route, specifying that an HTTP GET request to /products/create should call the create method of the ProductController class.

  • Lines 6–9: We define the routes based on HTTP GET, PUT, and DELETE methods to ...