library laravel-pretty-controller

blainesch/laravel-pretty-controller

What?

, _(*1)

This library provides helpful content negotiations. For instance if you ask for json back from a typical laravel website you'd still get html back. I carefully look at the Accept header and type (.json for instance) to best determine what media type to render., _(*2)

What does this mean? It means your controller actions are cleaner, all you do is return values! ~~~ php class UserController extends BaseController { public function show() { return View::make('user.show')->with([ 'name' => 'BlaineSch', ]); } }, _(*3)

Now, let's respond to multiple content types and prettify our controller!
~~~ php
class UserController extends BaseController {
    public function showAction()
    {
        return ['name' => 'blainesch'];
    }
}

Installation

Composer

~~~ json 'require': { "blainesch/laravel-pretty-controller": "0.0.1" }, _(*4)

### Update `Controller` and add `CoreController` values in your `app/config/app.php` file.
~~~ php
'aliases' => [
    // ...
    'Controller'      => 'Blainesch\LaravelPrettyController\Action\PrettyController',
    'CoreController'  => 'Illuminate\Routing\Controller',
    // ...
]

Register your media types

Create a bootstrap/media.php ~~~ php <?php, _(*5)

use Blainesch\LaravelPrettyController\Http\MediaType;, _(*6)

MediaType::add('html', [ 'conditions' => [ 'accept' => [ 'text/html', '/', ], ], 'encode' => function($request, $response) { $class = strtolower(str_replace('Controller', '', $request['controller'])); return \View::make("{$class}.{$request['method']}")->with($response); }, ]);, _(*7)

MediaType::add('json', [ 'conditions' => [ 'type' => 'json', 'accept' => [ 'application/json', 'application/x-json', ], ], 'encode' => function($request, $response) { return json_encode($response); }, ]);, _(*8)

Include this file in `bootstrap/autoload.php` below composer autoloader
~~~ php
require __DIR__.'/media.php';