Resource Controllers

A resource controller maps the seven CRUD actions to one class. --model type-hints Product in each stub for route model binding (Route Model Binding); --requests would add the form requests of Validation.

Generating the web and API product controllersShell

php artisan make:controller ProductController --resource --model=Product
php artisan make:controller Api/ProductController --api --model=Product

Route::resource('products', ProductController::class) registers the routes below. Route::apiResource() omits create and edit, which only serve HTML forms; the bookshop adds ->names('api.products') so its API names cannot collide with the web ones.

The seven routes registered by Route::resource('products', ...)
Verb	URI	Action	Route name
GET	/products	index	products.index
GET	/products/create	create	products.create
POST	/products	store	products.store
GET	/products/{product}	show	products.show
GET	/products/{product}/edit	edit	products.edit
PUT/PATCH	/products/{product}	update	products.update
DELETE	/products/{product}	destroy	products.destroy

only() and except() trim the set, as the admin OrderController of Prefixes and Subdomains did. Register extra routes such as /products/popular before resource(), or {product} captures popular. ->missing(fn () => ...) replaces the 404 for an unknown model.

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