Build Crud API with Laravel 12

In this tutorial will teach  Laravel 12 CRUD API  by step. Laravel  10 CRUD Application  we will cover about Create, Read, Update, and Delete and View crud operation in Laravel. Generate the API is very easy task to transfer data using various front end applications like React,Vue,Angular etc.

Installing Laravel 12

Create the new project which name is gps-app.type by following command to create the Laravel project.

composer create-project laravel/laravel gps-app

After Type the Command you have to wait until the project installation get  finish. After Finished it.let’s do the  setup on database.

Do the database configuration on  .env File for username, password and DB Name in this project i have changed the database name as lbs

After that run the project.

Run the Project

Run the Application using following command

php artisan serve

Create Migrations

In Laravel create the table called as Migration

Run the command to create the Migration

php artisan make:migration create_students_table

After that you can check the inside  database folder migrations  create_students_table file has been created
successfully.

Select and open the students table. add the following table fields stname,address,phone

<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
return new class extends Migration
{
  
    public function up(): void
    {
        Schema::create('students', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('name');
            $table->string('address');
            $table->string('phone')->nullable();
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }
 
    public function down(): void
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('students');
    }
};

After modified the columns names  then run the migrate command to create the tables in the databases.before the run the
command please save project then run it.

php artisan migrate

Create Controller Api Controller

Create Controller  
in order to create the controller if it crud you can use  StudentController –api.

php artisan make:controller StudentController --api

After create the controller need to create the model.

Create Model

Model is used to get the data from the database.

Create the Model name which is Student

php artisan make:model Student

After Model is Created the look like this. Code inside Model Class (app\Models\)

Change it as like this

Add the Namespace above

namespace App\Models;

<?php
namespace App\Models;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Employee extends Model
{
  protected $table = 'students';
  protected $primaryKey = 'id';
   protected $fillable = [
        'name',
        'address',
        'phone',
    ];
    use HasFactory;
}

Routes

install API

php artisan install:api

and paste the code api.php  route page

Pages are Manage through routes. If you are crud system simple you can add it the routes one line look like this

<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\API\StudentController;
Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});
Route::apiResource('/student', StudentController::class);

List the Routes

php artisan route:list

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Employee;
class EmployeeController extends Controller
{
    protected $student;
    public function __construct(){
        $this->student = new Student();
        
    }
    public function index()
    {
        return $this->student->all();
     
    }
    
    public function store(Request $request)
    {
     return $this->student->create($request->all());
    
       
    }
  
    public function show(string $id)
    {
     $student = $this->student->find($id);  
    }

    public function update(Request $request, string $id)
    {
         $student = $this->student->find($id);
         $student->update($request->all());
         return $student;
    }
    public function destroy(string $id)
    {
     $student = $this->student->find($id);
    return $student->delete();   
    }
}