Laravel 4 - Child constructor call parent constructor with dependency injection

Question

I\'m building a CMS using Laravel 4 and I have a base admin controller for the admin pages that looks something like this:

class AdminController extends BaseCont         


        

Answer 1

There's a way. When BaseController autoresolves it's dependecies.

use Illuminate\Routing\Controller;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Application;

// Dependencies
use Illuminate\Auth\AuthManager;
use Prologue\Alerts\AlertsMessageBag;

class BaseController extends Controller {

    protected $authManager;
    protected $alerts;

    public function __construct(
        // Required for resolving
        Application $app,

        // Dependencies
        AuthManager $authManager = null,
        AlertsMessageBag $alerts = null
    )
    {
        static $dependencies;

        // Get parameters
        if ($dependencies === null)
        {
            $reflector = new \ReflectionClass(__CLASS__);
            $constructor = $reflector->getConstructor()
            $dependencies = $constructor->getParameters();
        }

        foreach ($dependencies as $dependency)
        {
            // Process only omitted optional parameters
            if (${$dependency->name} === null)
            {
                // Assign variable
                ${$dependency->name} = $app->make($dependency->getClass()->name);
            }
        }


        $this->authManager = $authManager;
        $this->alerts = $alerts;

        // Test it
        dd($authManager);
    }
}

So in child controller you pass only Application instance:

class MyController extends BaseController {

    public function __construct(
        // Class dependencies resolved in BaseController
        //..

        // Application
        Application $app
    )
    {
        // Logic here
        //..


        // Invoke parent
        parent::__construct($app);
    }
}

Of course, we could use Facade for application