Access Controller method from another controller i

Question

I have two controllers SubmitPerformanceController and PrintReportController.

In PrintReportController I have a method called getPrintReport.

How to access this method in SubmitPerformanceController?

Answer 1

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

//call the controller you want to use its methods
use App\Http\Controllers\AdminController;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use App\Http\Requests;

class MealController extends Controller
   {
      public function try_call( AdminController $admin){
         return $admin->index();   
    }
   }

Answer 2

\App::call('App\Http\Controllers\MyController@getFoo')

Answer 3

You shouldn’t. It’s an anti-pattern. If you have a method in one controller that you need to access in another controller, then that’s a sign you need to re-factor.

Consider re-factoring the method out in to a service class, that you can then instantiate in multiple controllers. So if you need to offer print reports for multiple models, you could do something like this:

class ExampleController extends Controller
{
    public function printReport()
    {
        $report = new PrintReport($itemToReportOn);
        return $report->render();
    }
}