Laravel Controller Subfolder routing

Question

I\'m new to Laravel. To try and keep my app organized I would like to put my controllers into subfolders of the controller folder.

controllers\\
---- folder1         


        

Answer 1

I am using Laravel 4.2. Here how I do it:
I have a directory structure like this one:
app
--controllers
----admin
------AdminController.php

After I have created the controller I've put in the composer.json the path to the new admin directory:

"autoload": {
"classmap": [
"app/commands",
"app/controllers",
"app/controllers/admin",
"app/models",
"app/database/migrations",
"app/database/seeds",
"app/tests/TestCase.php"
]
}, 

Next I have run

composer dump-autoload

and then

php artisan dump-autoload

Then in the routes.php I have the controller included like this:

Route::controller('admin', 'AdminController');

And everything works fine.

Answer 2

In Laravel 5.6, assuming the name of your subfolder' is Api:

In your controller, you need these two lines:

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Api;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

And in your route file api.php, you need:

Route::resource('/myapi', 'Api\MyController');

Answer 3

Add your controllers in your folders:

controllers\
---- folder1
---- folder2

Create your route not specifying the folder:

Route::get('/product/dashboard', 'MakeDashboardController@showDashboard');

Run

composer dump-autoload

And try again

Answer 4

If you're using Laravel 5.3 or above, there's no need to get into so much of complexity like other answers have said. Just use default artisan command to generate a new controller. For eg, if I want to create a User controller in User folder. I would type

php artisan make:controller User/User

In routes,

Route::get('/dashboard', 'User\User@dashboard');

doing just this would be fine and now on localhost/dashboard is where the page resides.

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

For Laravel 5.3 above:

php artisan make:controller test/TestController

This will create the test folder if it does not exist, then creates TestController inside.

TestController will look like this:

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers\test;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

class TestController extends Controller
{
    public function getTest()
    {
        return "Yes";
    }
}

You can then register your route this way:

Route::get('/test','test\TestController@getTest');

Answer 6

Just found a way how to do it:

Just add the paths to the /app/start/global.php

ClassLoader::addDirectories(array(

    app_path().'/commands',
    app_path().'/controllers',
    app_path().'/controllers/product',
    app_path().'/models',
    app_path().'/database/seeds',

));