Laravel 4 - Child constructor call parent constructor with dependency injection

Question

I\'m building a CMS using Laravel 4 and I have a base admin controller for the admin pages that looks something like this:

class AdminController extends BaseCont         


        

Answer 1

I came across the same issue, when extending my base Controller.

I opted for a different approach than the other solutions shown here. Rather than rely on dependency injection, I'm using app()->make() in the parents constructor.

class Controller
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        $images = app()->make(Images::class);
    }
}

There may be downsides to this simpler approach - possibly making the code less testable.