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I refer to them as the local and foreign keys but they are actually both foreign keys on the pivot
table. Think of local as the key closest to the model in which the relationship is defined and the
foreign as the furthest.
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Our models’ $table property should match what’s specified in the migrations and seeders.
The last step in creating our API is to create the client-facing controllers.
Generating Controllers
The API controllers are different from those you might typically see, in a Laravel 4 application. They
don’t load views; rather they respond to the requested content type. They don’t typically cater for
multiple request types within the same action. They are not concerned with interface; but rather
translating and formatting model data.
Creating them is a bit more tricky than the other classes we’ve done so far:
1 php artisan generate:controller EventController
The command isn’t much different, but the generated file is far from ready:
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