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Build An App 1: Playstation Game Collection 369
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16 // Bind route parameters.
17 Route::model('game', 'Game');
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19 // Show pages.
20 Route::get('/', 'GamesController@index');
21 Route::get('/create', 'GamesController@create');
22 Route::get('/edit/{game}', 'GamesController@edit');
23 Route::get('/delete/{game}', 'GamesController@delete');
24
25 // Handle form submissions.
26 Route::post('/create', 'GamesController@handleCreate');
27 Route::post('/edit', 'GamesController@handleEdit');
28 Route::post('/delete', 'GamesController@handleDelete');
Wait, what’s that Route::model() method? Well here’s a lovely piece of black magic that Laravel
has to offer. The Route::model() method will let Laravel know that any route parameters with the
same name as the first parameter to the method will be an Eloquent model instance defined by the
second parameter. So in the above example, any route paramers named game, like the one within
/edit/{game} will be bound to Eloquent Game model instances.
Laravel will look at the integer supplied as a parameter, and perform a lookup on the model by
primary key. It will then pass the appropriate model instance as a parameter to the controller action.
How useful is that? The answer is… VERY!
You should be more than familiar with the rest of the routing process by now. We have four GET
routes used to display our application pages, and three POST routes to handle form submissions.
Let’s make sure that everything is working as expected. We will use the Artisan serve command to
fire up a basic webserver and test our application.
1 $ php artisan serve
2 Laravel development server started on http://localhost:8000
We see that our development server is running on port 8000, so let’s visit the http://localhost:8000
to ensure that we receive our blank template. It works great for me! Onwards to templating.
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For our templates we are going to use Twitter Bootstrap. It’s a CSS framework that will handle the
styling of typical application HTML for us. I find that it’s great for prototyping applications. We will