Laravel Starter - PHP User Group (Myanmar)

Laravel Starter
In this example, we're only using one key/value pair for configuring our route. We use the key
before to tell Laravel that our route uses a before filter. The value associated with the before
key is the name of the filter, which should be run before our anonymous function is executed.
Controllers are groups of routable methods that are similar and are therefore uniquely
convenient to filter upon. Often the same set of filters that is appropriate for one action
in a controller is appropriate for the rest. Filtering at the controller level gives you more
flexibility and less redundancy than defining your filters in each route declaration. Let's
look at securing our users controller.
class Users_Controller extends Base_Controller
{
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
}
$this->filter('before', 'auth');
Here we're looking only at the top-most section of our users controller. The rest of the
controller is identical to what we created in the Quick start section.
As you may have noticed, we've declared a constructor for our Users_Controller class.
A constructor is a method that is run immediately once our class is instantiated as an object.
We use a controller class' constructor to define filters for that controller's actions. It's also
important to notice that we first call the parent::__construct() method. It is important
for Laravel's Controller class to have its constructor executed so that it can initialize itself
and be ready for action.
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