Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

/api/posts/1 with the DELETE method

The delete operation will be served by destroy($id). Again, it depends on ID coming from an API user, so we need to place a similar check as we placed for update() and show(). Here is what it will look like:

public function destroy($id){    $post = $this->post->find($id);    if(!$post) {        abort(404);    }    $post->delete();    return ['message' => 'deleted successfully', 'post_id' => $id];}

With that, our PostController will look like this:

<?phpnamespace App\Http\Controllers;use Illuminate\Http\Request;use Illuminate\Http\Response;use Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse;class PostController extends Controller{    public function __construct(\App\Post $post)    {        $this->post = $post;    }    /**     * Display a listing of the resource.     *