Laravel challenge / poll for book.

challenge.md

Challenge: you need a flexible (swap in other repository implementations) way to display some kind of resource. Let's say, Posts. What does your folder structure look like?

Requirements:

• Repository implements an interface
• Must show at least one implementation of the interface (Eloquent version is fine)
• The interface is injected into your PostsController.
• Show where you register your IoC bindings
• Show folder structure. Where are interfaces/repositories stored?

Could this setup also be used for an email implementation for instance I know i can use Mail::send() whenever i want to send mail but when im testing using real data i would like any emails sent out to go to me as the developer and then when going live it to default to going to the correct user.

I could keep changing the to address each time and remember to set them back for go live but that seems like a bit of a hack, is there a way i could use an interface like above to create my own send method which then inside of that does the checking if im in dev mode and then uses a config to address if not it uses the to address passed to it.

Would the folder structure be along the lines of

# Inside of app/lib
Appname
    Email
       EmailInterface.php
       Email.php
    EmailServiceProvider.php

or does that look odd, or should i just be extending the Email class in the first place, sorry if im going off topic here.

I have a question on this: how much do you abstract away from your controllers? For example, lets say that we are creating a user. Along with saving the user, we also want to automatically assign the user's group and fire off an email to the user. Do you:

• Place all of the above in your UserRepository.store() method
• Only save the user in Repository.store(). Return bool to controller - if true then save group (using UserGroup Repository) and then fire off the email in the controller
• Something else?

Love this challenge actually helping me with getting into abstraction.

But one question I have is , I see alot of people implementing for instance in this version posted, the Post class extending eloquent shouldn't this Post class be a entity that just defines what the Post is made up of and function to act on the entity and not extending Eloquent ?