eventhomes/laravel-apicontroller

Simplified API controller, inspired by Jeffrey Way. Compatible with Laravel 5+ and Lumen 5+.

Laravel 5 / Lumen 5 Api Controller

A simple api controller helper trait, compatible with Lumen 5+ and Laravel 5+. The goal of this project is to make creating API projects simple. Inspired by Jeffrey Way (https://www.laracasts.com), _(*1)

Installation

composer require eventhomes/laravel-apicontroller, _(*2)

Basic Setup/Usage

...
use EventHomes\Api\ApiController;

class MyController extends Controller {

    use ApiController;

    public function index() {
        return $this->respond(['status' => 'hello world']);
    }

}

Api Helper functions

Please browse through the source to see a full list., _(*3)

//200 response
$this->respond();

//201 response
$this->respondCreated();

//500 error
$this->respondServerError();

//422 error
$this->respondUnprocessable();

//General error
$this->respondWithError('message here');

Add Fractal Helpers

Please use [https://github.com/eventhomes/laravel-fractalhelper], _(*4)