Use specific ServiceProvider in Laravel 4 - php

Question

Laravel 4 ships with the php artisan routes command. This shows a list of registered routes on the command line. Instead of showing the registered routes on the command line, I would like to get its values within a controller.
The following method does exactly what I want:
Illuminate\Foundation\Console\RoutesCommand()
Unfortunately this is a protected method, so it doesn't work when I try something like this:
$rc = new Illuminate\Foundation\Console\RoutesCommand(new Illuminate\Routing\Router);
print_r($rc->getRoutes());
How can I access this method to display the registered routes in my Laravel 4 app?
Or even better; how can I access methods of any autoloaded service provider?

Answer 1

You can get all routes like this:
$routes = App::make('router')->getRoutes();
foreach($routes as $name => $route)
{
//do your stuff
}

Answer 2

I believe you would have to create a class that extends Illuminate\Foundation\Console\RoutesCommand and then you can run the method using print_r($this->getRoutes());

Answer 3

Here is a sample of how you can call an Artisan command from inside a Controller:
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArrayInput;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\Output;
use Illuminate\Console\Application as ConsoleApplication;
class MyOutput extends Output {
protected $contents = '';
protected function doWrite($message, $newline)
{
$this->contents .= $message . ($newline ? "\n" : '');
}
public function __toString()
{
return $this->contents;
}
}
class MyController extends BaseController {
public function getRoutes()
{
$app = app();
$app->loadDeferredProviders();
$artisan = ConsoleApplication::start($app);
$command = $artisan->find('routes');
$input = new ArrayInput(array('command' => 'routes'));
$output = new MyOutput();
$command->run($input, $output);
return '<pre>' . $output . '</pre>';
}
}
In this case, the Artisan command is routes and we are not passing any parameter to it.