Laravel - How to assign relative path for subfolder controller? - rest

Question

I'm using laravel 4.0 for my web service project. I try to assign relative path to controller subfolder but still got the error message.
This is my router looks like
Route::group(array('prefix' => 'merchant'), function()
{
Route::resource('index', 'ProductController#showIndex');
Route::resource('product', 'CategoryController#showIndex');
Route::resource('general', 'GeneralController#showIndex');
});
Current path
/app/controllers/ProductController.php
I want to be like this one
/app/controllers/merchant/ProductController.php
Thanks a lot in advance.

Answer 1

You need a namespace to achieve that.
In your controller folder make a directory called merchant and place your ProductController.php inside Merchant directory.
Then open your ProductController.php and use the following namespace on top of the file.
<?php namespace Merchant;
class ProductController extends /BaseController
{
After that edit your route file:
Route::get('index', 'Merchant\ProductController#showIndex');
Remove the Route::group(array('prefix' => 'merchant'), function(). Prefix used when you have a common url for more than one routes.
For example:
http:://laravel.com/xyz/products
http:://laravel.com/xyz/category
http:://laravel.com/xyz/posts
Here xyz is common in every URL. So, In this case, you can use group routing with prefix xyz
One more thing, I can see, you have used resource controller.
Route::resource('index', 'ProductController#showIndex');
Route::resource('product', 'CategoryController#showIndex');
Route::resource('general', 'GeneralController#showIndex');
Do you know that By default, for resource controller, Laravel will generate 7 routes. So, You don't need to create #showIndex function when using resource controller.
Route::resource('index', 'ProductController');
Route::resource('product', 'CategoryController');
Route::resource('general', 'GeneralController');
More about resource controller:
http://laravel.com/docs/controllers#resource-controllers