Beginning Laravel: A beginner's guide to application development with Laravel 5.3

© Sanjib Sinha 2017

Sanjib Sinha, Beginning Laravel, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2538-7_5

5. Controller Class

Sanjib Sinha¹ 

(1)Howrah, West Bengal, India

In MVC framework controller has a definite role. It primarily controls the flow between model and view. In ‘routes.php’ file we’ve seen how we send the request using HTTP protocol. Now we want to organize the same behavior using controller class.

Let us remember the first route method. When you install Laravel it normally comes with this default route method .

Route::get('/', function () {    return view('welcome');});

In this route method we get a view. As the route method says: return a view. The question is: where are models and controllers? We are not supposed to create only views using a Closure, are we? ...