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Welcome back, in this section, we'll cover
the differences between controllers and

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resource controllers used for
CRUD operations.

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While this course doesn't go into full
explanation of CRUD functionality,

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it's crucial to understand how both work,
and more importantly, how and

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when to use them.

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Laravel assigns common CRUD routes to
resource controllers with a single line

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of code.

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For example, creating a controller
that handles all HTTP requests for

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courses stored by your application.

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As I mentioned earlier,

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you can use an Artisan command to make
a resource controller with CRUD built in.

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The optional -r flag is the only
difference between the two

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Artisan commands for controllers and
resource controllers.

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Let's create our first resource
controller, so we can take a look at

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the differences between a controller
that returns a route and

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a resource controller, by using the main
controller Artisan command like this.

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Once you've created
the resource controller,

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navigate to
the App\Http\Controllers directory,

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and open the ExampleController.php file.

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You'll notice that both controllers are
very much alike, with the exception that

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the resource controllers have all of
the CRUD functionality pre-built for you.

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With one command, you get resource
controllers out of the box,

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how cool is that?

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We won't use resource
controllers in this course,

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but it's useful to know how
Laravel makes CRUD operations

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rather intuitive to implement
using the optional -r flag.

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Without the -r flag,
it's just a controller,

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not a resource controller
with CRUD functionality.

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Resource controllers make building
CRUD functionality a snap, and

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the Artisan CLI makes it
even easier to implement.

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We can also use the middleware method to
attach middleware to controller actions.

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To learn more about middleware,
check the teacher's notes below.

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In the next session, we are going to build
all the views we need for our Laravel app.

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Then we'll test our routes,
closures, and controllers,

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to see how they display the views
in the browser, see you there.