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Inventory Management and Organization

Inventory Management and Organization

Learn how to handle inventory stocks with Laravel.

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Introduction

To configure a basic structure to handle inventory management in Laravel, the app should contain simple features like creating, listing, modifying, and deleting products. Follow these steps to create a basic inventory management in Laravel.

Step 1: Define routes

The following routes (routes/web.php) will make sure that the four basic functionalities can be mapped to the required features.

 1. <?php

 2. use App\Http\Controllers\ProductController;

 3. 

 4. Route::get('/products', [ProductController::class,'index'])->name('products.index');

 5. Route::get('/products/create', [ProductController::class,'create']);

 6. Route::post('/products',[ProductController::class,'store']);

 7. Route::get('/products/{id}/edit', [ProductController::class,'edit']);

 8. Route::put('/products/{id}', [ProductController::class,'update']);

 9. Route::delete('/products/{id}',[ProductController::class,'destroy'])->name('products.destroy');

10. ?>
Routes for inventory

In the code:

  • Line 4: We define a route using the Route facade. It specifies that when an HTTP GET request is made to the /products URL, the index method of the ProductController class should be called. The ->name('products.index') part assigns a name to the route, making it easier to reference in the code.

  • Line 5: We define another route, specifying that an HTTP GET request to /products/create should call the create method of the ProductController class.

  • Lines 6–9: We define the routes based on HTTP ...