Laravel 5.5 Resource Controller and Dependecy Injection - php

Question

I am working on a Laravel 5.5 application. When I use php artisan make:model SomeModel -mr it creates the model, migration and resource controller.
I've been noticed that some methods have by default only one parameter: the model:
public function show(SomeModel $someModel)
{
...
}
If you look into the $someModel variable it has an empty SomeModel object.
I was reading on Laravel Documentation that it looks like the Containers or Facades but I am not sure how to use this. Do you?
Edit 1:
I had my routes defined in routes/web.php as: Route::resource('users', 'UserController');
Now I had to define all the routes manually since automatic binding was not working:
Route::get('users', 'UserController#index');
Route::get('users/create', 'UserController#create');
Route::post('users', 'UserController#store');
Route::get('users/{user}/edit', 'UserController#edit', function(App\User $user) {});
Route::post('users/{user}', 'UserController#update', function(App\User $user) {});
Route::post('users/{user}/delete', 'UserController#destroy', function(App\User $user) {});
So, should I replace every resource controller route to manual routing like this?

Answer 1

The resource controller is expecting you to use route model binding. In your routes file, each route that corresponds to a controller action with an injected model will need to have a matching parameter.
For example:
Route::get('user/{user}', 'UserController#show');
Using the above route, the following controller action would receive a user instances that corresponds to the user ID passed as a URL parameter.
class UserController extends Controller
{
public function show(User $user)
{
...
}
}
The reason you're seeing an empty model now is that Laravel will just pass and fresh model to the controller if it is not bound to a route parameter. In other words, if you forget to bind the model in your routes file automatic injection will just give you a new instance.
Note that if you are using a route resource the resulting routes should already have the correct parameters
Route::resource('users', 'UserController');
You can run php artisan route:list to confirm that your actual routes are correct.

Answer 2

Your problem is your controller is expecting two parameters like below:
public function show($id, User $user)
if you try:
public function show(User $user)
it should work correctly.
In your route you are passing only a single param like:
user/{user}
So if you dd the first param it will display the number 1 but if you pass that
to the model it will return the corresponding user as per what id you pass in the route.
The reason your User model was returning an empty object was because there was no value passed to it.
Also make sure your route placeholder: /{user} matches the variable name in
the controller: public function show(User $user).
Hope this helps.

Answer 3

I too came across with the same problem.
If your model having two or more words, you have to use only small letters like $modeModel as $somemodel.
public function show(SomeModel $somemodel)
{
...
}