The first controller

- [Instructor] Controllers in Laravel … and another model view controller, or MVC frameworks … are the part of the application … that ties together the model, or the data storage layer, … basically the database, and the view, … where we format the actual HTML, … or whatever we use to present our user interface. … Creating a controller in Laravel follows a pattern, … we should be pretty comfortable with at this point. … We'll start with using php artisan to make a controller. … First, be sure the homestead box is booted, … and we'll be in the code directory … inside of our homestead box. … We'll make a single action controller, … or a controller with only a single action in it. … We'll call this controller show rooms. … This controller is going to show the rooms for our hotel. … A single action controller in Laravel … uses the tag invokable, … which uses the PHP magic method of invoke to be invoked. … So our command is php artisan make:controller … ShowRoomsController --invokable. … Now we can go to our routes file in our text editor …