Add new methods to a resource controller in Laravel

Solution 1:

Just add a route to that method separately, before you register the resource:

Route::get('foo/bar', 'FooController@bar');
Route::resource('foo', 'FooController');

Solution 2:

I just did that, to add a GET "delete" method.

After creating your files, you just need to add

'AntonioRibeiro\Routing\ExtendedRouterServiceProvider',

to 'providers' in your app/config.php

Edit the Route alias in this same file:

'Route'           => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route',

changing it to

'Route'           => 'AntonioRibeiro\Facades\ExtendedRouteFacade',

And make sure those files are being autoloaded, they must be in some directory that you have in your composer.json ("autoload" section).

Then you just need to:

Route::resource('users', 'UsersController');

And this (look at the last line) is the result if you run php artisan routes:

Those are my source files:

ExtendedRouteFacade.pas

<?php namespace AntonioRibeiro\Facades;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade as IlluminateFacade;

class ExtendedRouteFacade extends IlluminateFacade {

    /**
     * Determine if the current route matches a given name.
     *
     * @param  string  $name
     * @return bool
     */
    public static function is($name)
    {
        return static::$app['router']->currentRouteNamed($name);
    }

    /**
     * Determine if the current route uses a given controller action.
     *
     * @param  string  $action
     * @return bool
     */
    public static function uses($action)
    {
        return static::$app['router']->currentRouteUses($action);
    }

    /**
     * Get the registered name of the component.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    protected static function getFacadeAccessor() { return 'router'; }

}

ExtendedRouter.pas

<?php namespace AntonioRibeiro\Routing;

class ExtendedRouter extends \Illuminate\Routing\Router {

    protected $resourceDefaults = array('index', 'create', 'store', 'show', 'edit', 'update', 'destroy', 'delete');

    /**
     * Add the show method for a resourceful route.
     *
     * @param  string  $name
     * @param  string  $base
     * @param  string  $controller
     * @return void
     */
    protected function addResourceDelete($name, $base, $controller)
    {
        $uri = $this->getResourceUri($name).'/{'.$base.'}/destroy';

        return $this->get($uri, $this->getResourceAction($name, $controller, 'delete'));
    }

}

ExtendedRouteServiceProvider.pas

<?php namespace AntonioRibeiro\Routing;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class ExtendedRouterServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider {

    /**
     * Indicates if loading of the provider is deferred.
     *
     * @var bool
     */
    protected $defer = true;

    /**
     * Register the service provider.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function register()
    {
        $this->app['router'] = $this->app->share(function() { return new ExtendedRouter($this->app); });
    }

    /**
     * Get the services provided by the provider.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function provides()
    {
        return array('router');
    }

}