refactoring routing and adding comments.

laravel/routing/route.php

@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ class Route {
 	 */
 	public $key;
 
+	/**
+	 * The URIs the route responds to.
+	 *
+	 * @var array
+	 */
+	public $uris;
+
 	/**
 	 * The route callback or array.
 	 *
@@ -56,6 +63,15 @@ public function __construct($key, $callback, $parameters, $controller_path)
 		$this->callback = $callback;
 		$this->parameters = $parameters;
 		$this->controller_path = $controller_path;
+
+		// Extract each URI handled by the URI. These will be used to find the route by
+		// URI when requested. The leading slash will be removed for convenience.
+		foreach (explode(', ', $key) as $segment)
+		{
+			$segment = substr($segment, strpos($segment, ' ') + 1);
+
+			$this->uris[] = ($segment !== '/') ? trim($segment, '/') : $segment;
+		}
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -66,8 +82,14 @@ public function __construct($key, $callback, $parameters, $controller_path)
 	 */
 	public function call(Application $application)
 	{
-		$this->validate();
+		if ( ! $this->callback instanceof Closure and ! is_array($this->callback))
+		{
+			throw new \Exception('Invalid route defined for URI ['.$this->key.']');
+		}
 
+		// Run the "before" filters for the route. If a before filter returns a value, that value
+		// will be considered the response to the request and the route function / controller will
+		// not be used to handle the request.
 		if ( ! is_null($response = $this->filter(array_merge($this->before(), array('before')), array($application), true)))
 		{
 			return $this->finish($application, $response);
@@ -80,19 +102,6 @@ public function call(Application $application)
 		return $this->finish($application, $application->responder->error('404'));
 	}
 
-	/**
-	 * Validate that a given route is callable.
-	 *
-	 * @return void
-	 */
-	protected function validate()
-	{
-		if ( ! $this->callback instanceof Closure and ! is_array($this->callback))
-		{
-			throw new \Exception('Invalid route defined for URI ['.$this->key.']');
-		}
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * Extract the route closure from the route.
 	 *
@@ -121,6 +130,9 @@ protected function handle_closure(Application $application, Closure $closure)
 
 		$response = call_user_func_array($closure, $this->parameters);
 
+		// If the route closure returns an array, we assume that they are returning a
+		// reference to a controller and method and will use the given controller method
+		// to handle the request to the application.
 		if (is_array($response))
 		{
 			$response = $this->delegate($application, $response[0], $response[1], $this->parameters);
@@ -142,7 +154,7 @@ protected function delegate(Application $application, $controller, $method, $par
 	{
 		if ( ! file_exists($path = $this->controller_path.strtolower(str_replace('.', '/', $controller)).EXT))
 		{
-			throw new \Exception("Controller [$controller] is not defined.");
+			throw new \Exception("Controller [$controller] does not exist.");
 		}
 
 		require $path;
@@ -158,6 +170,9 @@ protected function delegate(Application $application, $controller, $method, $par
 			$response = $controller->before();
 		}
 
+		// Again, as was the case with route closures, if the controller "before" method returns
+		// a response, it will be considered the response to the request and the controller method
+		// will not be used to handle the request to the application.
 		return (is_null($response)) ? call_user_func_array(array($controller, $method), $parameters) : $response;
 	}
 
@@ -170,10 +185,7 @@ protected function delegate(Application $application, $controller, $method, $par
 	 */
 	protected function resolve(Container $container, $controller)
 	{
-		if ($container->registered('controllers.'.$controller))
-		{
-			return $container->resolve('controllers.'.$controller);
-		}
+		if ($container->registered('controllers.'.$controller)) return $container->resolve('controllers.'.$controller);
 
 		$controller = str_replace(' ', '_', ucwords(str_replace('.', ' ', $controller))).'_Controller';
 

laravel/view.php

@@ -93,6 +93,18 @@ public function __construct($path, View_Composer $composer)
 		$this->composer = $composer;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Create a new view instance.
+	 *
+	 * @param  string  $view
+	 * @param  array   $data
+	 * @return View
+	 */
+	public function make($view, $data = array())
+	{
+		return new View($view, $data, $this->path($view), $this->composer, $this);
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Create a new view instance from a view name.
 	 *