Call a controller in Laravel 4

Question

In Laravel 3, you could call a controller using the Controller::call method, like so:

Controller::call('api.items@index', $params);

I looked through the Controller class in L4 and found this method which seems to replace the older method: callAction(). Though it isn't a static method and I couldn't get it to work. Probably not the right way to do it?

How can I do this in Laravel 4?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15205239/call-a-controller-in-laravel-4

Answer 1

If I understand right, you are trying to build an API-centric application and want to access the API internally in your web application to avoid making an additional HTTP request (e.g. with cURL). Is that correct?

You could do the following:

$request = Request::create('api/items', 'GET', $params);
return Route::dispatch($request)->getContent();

Notice that, instead of specifying the controller@method destination, you'll need to use the uri route that you'd normally use to access the API externally.

Even better, you can now specify the HTTP verb the request should respond to.