Laravel Controller: Tutorial with Code Example

Laravel is a popular PHP framework that makes it easy to build web applications. One of the key components of a Laravel application is the controller. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at controllers in Laravel and how they work, with code examples to help illustrate the concepts.

A controller in Laravel is a class that handles HTTP requests and manages the flow of data between the model and the view. Controllers take in data, act on the model, and send a response back to the client.

To create a new controller in Laravel, you can use the php artisan make:controller command. For example, to create a controller called, you would run the following command:

php artisan make:controller TaskController

This will create a new file in the app/Http/Controllers directory called TaskController.php. The file will contain a skeleton controller class with some basic methods.

A basic controller method looks like this:

class TaskController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        // Code to retrieve tasks from the database and pass them to the view
    }
}

The index the method is called when the /tasks route is accessed. It could be used to retrieve a list of tasks from the database and pass them to the…