Resource Controllers

In this video, we continue building our survey application by exploring Resource Controllers, CRUD operations, and RESTful routing conventions in Laravel.

You’ll learn how Laravel connects controllers, models, and routes using expressive, convention-driven patterns that dramatically simplify your codebase.

What We Cover
✔ Controllers
- Off-loading logic from route files
- Organizing application behavior into coherent action methods
- Coordinating Models and Views

✔ Eloquent Models
- Representing database tables as objects
- Simplifying database interactions
- Handling model relationships
- Working with PHP instead of SQL

✔ CRUD Fundamentals
- Create, Read, Update, Delete
- Why nearly every model needs these operations

✔ RESTful Routes
- Mapping CRUD operations to HTTP verbs
- GET, POST, PUT/PATCH, DELETE
- Using _method to simulate non-GET/POST verbs in forms

✔ Resource Controllers
- Scaffolding with: `php artisan make:controller SurveyController --resource`
- Understanding index, create, store, show, edit, update, destroy
- Conventions that keep your controllers clean and predictable

✔ Resourceful Routing
- Connecting all CRUD routes with a single line: `Route::resource('surveys', SurveyController::class);`
- Overview table of every generated route, verb, URI, and action

✔ Nested Resources & Relationships
- Handling survey sections with nested resource routes
- Using ->scoped() to ensure child models belong to parent models
- Auto-generated nested route names (e.g., surveys.sections.index)

Links & References
- Laravel Resource Controllers Documentation: https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/controllers#resource-controllers

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