Multiple Projects using single laravel instance

Question

I am new to Laravel. As per my research on this framework I find it quite useful for my projects. However I am facing difficulty in customizing it to use a single instance of La

Answer 1

Use Namespaces To Organize and Separate Things

Create PSR-4 autoloading entries to separate your projects files by namespace:

"psr-4": {
    "App\\Core\\": "app/App/Core",
    "App\\Main\\": "app/App/Main",
    "App\\Project1\\": "app/App/Project1",
    "App\\Project2\\": "app/App/Project2"
},

Everything common you put in Core, everything non-common in the related project files.

Now you just have to create your files in theirs respective folders and namespace them:

This is a BaseController in Core, used by all your controllers:

This is a BaseController of the Main application using your Core Controller:

And this is a HomeController of the Main application using your its Base Controller, as they are in the same namespace you don't even need to import the file:

Every single class file in Laravel can be organized this way, even your views, so you can have those files:

app/App/Core/Controllers/BaseController.php

app/App/Main/Controllers/BaseController.php
app/App/Main/Controllers/HomeController.php

app/App/Project1/Controllers/BaseController.php
app/App/Project1/Controllers/PostsController.php
app/App/Project1/Controllers/UsersController.php

app/App/Project1/Models/User.php
app/App/Project1/Models/Post.php
app/App/Project1/Models/Roles.php

Then your routes could be separated (organized) and prefixed by namespace:

Route::group(['prefix' => 'project1', 'namespace' => 'App\Project1\Controllers'], function()
{
    Route::get('/', 'HomeController@index');

    Route::get('posts', 'PostsController@index']);
});

Giving those urls:

http://yourdomain.com/project1
http://yourdomain.com/project1/posts

And pointing actions to those controller actions:

App\Project1\Controllers\HomeController@index
App\Project1\Controllers\PostsController@index