Laravel - Ressource CRUD

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Introduction

The term CRUD is related to the management of digital data. It summarizes the operations or functions that a user needs to create and manage data.

The acronym CRUD stands for the four basic operations for interacting with database applications:

  • Create : Create a data.
  • Read : Read a data.
  • Update : Update a data.
  • Delete : Delete a data.

CRUD, SQL and HTTP

Each component of the CRUD acronym can be associated with a type of query in SQL as well as an HTTP1,2 method :

Operation SQL HTTP
Create INSERT POST / PUT
Read SELECT GET
Update UDPATE PATCH / PUT
Delete DELETE DELETE

As you can see, we can associate CRUD method with HTTP method. That's why CRUD design is extremly used in REST APIs.

CRUD and Laravel Resource

Laravel can handle the CRUD design by default. In Laravel (and in general) that's called a Resource. A Resource is represented by a Model controlled by the CRUD design of a Controller and Routes. Laravel artisan has a command to generate all the CRUD actions of a controller and all related routes :

php artisan make:controller PhotoController --resource

This command will generate the following code :

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class PhotoController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Show the form for creating a new resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function create()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Store a newly created resource in storage.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function store(Request $request)
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Display the specified resource.
     *
     * @param  int  $id
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function show($id)
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Show the form for editing the specified resource.
     *
     * @param  int  $id
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function edit($id)
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Update the specified resource in storage.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @param  int  $id
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function update(Request $request, $id)
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Remove the specified resource from storage.
     *
     * @param  int  $id
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function destroy($id)
    {
        //
    }
}

We can translate the controller code to this array :

Method URI Action Route Name Description Used in REST APIs
GET /photos index photos.index Display all photos white_check_mark
GET /photos/create create photos.create Show the form for creating a photo x
POST /photos store photos.store Create a photo white_check_mark
GET /photos/{photo} show photos.show Display a photo white_check_mark
GET /photos/{photo}/edit edit photos.edit Show the form for editing a photo x
PUT/PATCH /photos/{photo} update photos.update Edit a photo white_check_mark
DELETE /photos/{photo} destroy photos.destroy Delete a photo white_check_mark

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