I would suggest an approach like Shawn does in the nextVersion branch of LaravelIO https://github.com/LaravelIO/laravel.io/tree/nextVersion/src Separates most things in it's own namespace.

Hi,

Laravel allows to put controller,models,views ,etc anywhere you want to.

Of course , You can get a structure of App like following.

# App (provided by laravel)   
     ## Applist  
          ### employee  
               #### controller.php  
               #### model.php  
               #### view.php  
          ### schedule  
               #### controller.php  
               #### model.php  
               #### view.php  

And, Many people do so .

It's very simple to do.

First , your package or library should follow PSR-0 or PSR-4 . And open composer.json then edit autoload . Last, execute composer dump-autoload .

For instance ,

User package's sturcture is like following.

# App (provided by laravel)   
     ## Components  
          ### User  
               #### Controllers
                   #### UserController.php  
               #### Models
                   #### User.php  

namespace of UserController.php is '\User\Controllers '

in composer.json

 "autoload" : {
    "psr-0" : {
         "User" : "app/componets"
     }
 }

then, composer dump-autoload

all done!

If you want to know more about it, reference following links.

• http://fideloper.com/laravel-4-where-to-put-bindings
• http://fideloper.com/laravel-4-application-setup-app-library-autoloading

thank you.

have a good day.

Thanks that was really helpful with what I need. Now that I have my controllers in different directories how would I go about extending the BaseController with my new controller? Should I make the baseController a global or create a namespace for that as well now? Also BaseController extends Controller, where is Controller even defined/declared?

Thanks,

I followed this video which really helped me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzdhnbM_0ug

You're awesome, that is exactly what I was looking for! I'm almost there. Now, I have one last question; how do I get access to the View class? I tried using the '' that worked with BaseController but no luck. Thanks for taking your time to help me so much.

I am setting up like this:

App (provided by laravel)

 ## Applist  
      ### login  
           #### controller.php  
           #### model.php  
           #### view.php  
      ### homepage  
           #### controller.php  
           #### model.php  
           #### view.php 




<?php namespace appList\login ;

class LoginController extends \BaseController
{
    public function __construct()
   {
        //dd('Hello');
   }

   public function showLogin()
   {
       return \View::make('view');
    }
 }

P.S. I am still going to use the views folder to hold my layout templates and just have my app\appList\login\view.php provide the content.

Hi Farr433,

If you simply add use View; below your namespace declaration everything should work fine with regards to the View Facade. You may also then remove the .

May I ask if your using PhpStorm? If so, it's likely you won't get auto-completion or your IDE may also be telling you that it cannot find the View Facade. This is in fact because it is a Facade but there is a solution.

There is a git repo called Laravel-IDE-Helper written by barryvdh or you can download the gist from the link below.

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/barryvdh/5227822/raw/9e8e00fa81b1b0f593360f6085d06efbc1c9c022/_ide_helper.php

Simply create a file called '_ide_helper.php' in the root of your project and paste the code inside and everything should work fine.

Hope that helps.

Thanks, I am using php storm and this makes it a lot easier now. I just recently switched from dreamweaver and have been missing out on a lot to say the least! I am now properly displaying pages as I would expect and can get to the good stuff.

Thanks for everything guys!

I'm sorry guys, I have yet another question. I have noticed that I have to manually connect all of the Facades using:

use View;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Input;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Session;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redirect;

What is the easiest way to be able to utilize Facades and etc without always having to import them? Should I maybe make an abstract appList class and then have an app like login extend the abstract class or what would be the best way to go about that?

Thanks,

Anthony