backend/frontend separation in laravel

Question

I come from a Codeigniter background. At the moment I am building a CMS in Laravel.

What I would like to know is how can I separate the backend and frontend in Laravel?

In Codeigniter i use to make two controller Admin_Controller and Front_Controller.

Article extends Admin_Controller
Article extends Front_Controller

and the file structure looked like this

controller
--admin
---user
---blog
---news
--user 
--blog
--news

for admin controller I make separate folder and front end controller remain in root of controller folder.

Should I use the same logic in Laravel or is there a better way to do it?

Answer 1

If you want to create thinks like Taylor Otwell and 'the core' is trying to teach people do things in Laravel, this is a good start:

Your files could be organized as

├── app
│   ├── ZIP
│   │   ├── Controllers
│   │   │   ├── Admin
│   │   │   │   ├── Base.php <--- your base controller
│   │   │   │   ├── User.php
│   │   │   │   ├── Blog.php
│   │   │   │   ├── News.php
│   │   │   ├── Front
│   │   │   │   ├── Base.php <--- your base controller
│   │   │   │   ├── User.php
│   │   │   │   ├── Blog.php
│   │   │   │   ├── News.php

Configure a PSR-0 or PSR-4 (better) to autoload your classes:

"psr-0": {
    "ZIP": "app/"
},

Create namespaces to all tour classes, according to your source tree:

<?php namespace ZIP\Controllers\Admin

class User extends Base {

}


<?php namespace ZIP\Controllers\Front

class Blog extends Base {

}

And create your base controllers

<?php namespace ZIP\Controllers\Admin

use Controller;

class Base extends Controller {

}