Laravel: Load method in another controller without changing the url

Question

I have this route: Route::controller(\'/\', \'PearsController\'); Is it possible in Laravel to get the PearsController to load a method from another controller

Answer 1

You should not. In MVC, controllers should not 'talk' to each other, if they have to share 'data' they should do it using a model, wich is the type of class responsible for data sharing in your app. Look:

// route:
Route::controller('/', 'PearsController');


// controllers
class PearsController extends BaseController {

    public function getAbc() 
    {
        $something = new MySomethingModel;

        $this->commonFunction();

        echo $something->getSomething();
    }

}

class ApplesController extends BaseController {

    public function showSomething() 
    {
        $something = new MySomethingModel;

        $this->commonFunction();

        echo $something->getSomething();
    }

}

class MySomethingModel {

    public function getSomething() 
    {
        return 'It works!';
    }

}

EDIT

What you can do instead is to use BaseController to create common functions to be shared by all your controllers. Take a look at commonFunction in BaseController and how it's used in the two controllers.

abstract class BaseController extends Controller {

    public function commonFunction() 
    {
       // will do common things 
    }

}

class PearsController extends BaseController {

    public function getAbc() 
    {
        return $this->commonFunction();
    }

}

class ApplesController extends BaseController {

    public function showSomething() 
    {
        return $this->commonFunction();
    }

}