Unlike other PHP frameworks, Laravel places routes and their corresponding functions in one file: **application/routes.php**. This file contains the "definition", or public API, of your application. To add functionality to your application, you add to the array located in this file.
All you need to do is tell Laravel the request methods and URIs it should respond to. You define the behavior of the route using an anonymous method:
'GET /home' => function()
{
// Handles GET requests to http://example.com/index.php/home
},
'PUT /user/update' => function()
{
// Handles PUT requests to http://example.com/index.php/user/update
}
You can easily define a route to handle requests to more than one URI. Just use commas:
'POST /, POST /home' => function()
{
// Handles POST requests to http://example.com and http://example.com/index.php/home
}
> **Note:** The routes.php file replaces the "controllers" found in most frameworks. Have a fat model and keep this file light and clean. Thank us later.
