Laravel - Using the Repository Pattern

Question

I am trying to learn the repository pattern, and seem to have got myself a tad confused with how I can use this repository pattern when eager loading relationships and keep

Answer 1

You are over thinking, repository is just a link/bridge between your controller and model and hence controller uses repository class instead of the model directly and in that repository you may declare your methods using the model from there, for example:

Now implement the interface in the repository class:

get();
    }

    public function find($id)
    {
        return Cat::find($id):
    }
}

To use it in your controller:

cat = $category;
    }

    public function getCatWith()
    {
        $catsProd = $this->cat->getCategoriesWith('products');
        return $catsProd;
    }

    // use any method from your category
    public function getAll()
    {
        $categories = $this->cat->all();

        return View::make('category.index', compact('categories'));
    }

}

Note: Omitted the IoC binding of the repository because this is not your problem and you know that.

Update: I've written an article here: LARAVEL – USING REPOSITORY PATTERN.