Laravel admin area - php

Question

working on a basic template for all future projects and decided to use Laravel.
The aim is just to create a starting point for any websites I make in the future (basic blog, admin area + user login system).
I was following a tutorial on the CRUD basics and made a simple blog management app. However I wish to put this into an /admin area.
Before, I had this in my route:
Route::resource('blog', 'BlogController');
Which then allowed me to simply use the functions in my BlogController on the domain.com/blog URL.
This is all working, but I want to mask this behind an admin area. I thought I could just move the blog folder with all my blog views in, into a admin folder but hitting route not defined errors.
The views folder is:
- Views
- admin
- blog
- edit.blade.php
- index.blade.php
- new.blade.php
- show.blade.php
- home.blade.php
Before, my blog folder was simply in the views folder itself. What do I need to change to get domain.com/admin/blog working the same as it did before?
Using Laravel 4.2

Answer 1

You could group controllers together to be inside admin folder and this will be a lot easier for managing files.
Laravel 5 Example
routes.php
Route::group(array('namespace' => 'admin', 'prefix' => 'admin'), function() {
Route::resource('blog', 'BlogController');
});
and then you can create BlogController.php inside admin folder
/app/Http/Controllers/admin/BlogController.php
the example of BlogController.php file
<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers\Admin;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
class BlogController extends Controller {
public function index()
{
echo "admin/blog/index";
}
}
and then you can call http://localhost:8000/admin/blog
Laravel 4 Example
routes.php
Route::group(array('namespace' => 'admin', 'prefix' => 'admin'), function() {
Route::resource('blog', 'BlogController');
});
and then you can create BlogController.php inside admin folder
/app/controllers/admin/BlogController.php
the example of BlogController.php file
<?php namespace Admin;
class BlogController extends \BaseController {
public function index()
{
echo "admin/blog/index";
}
}
and then you can call http://localhost:8000/admin/blog