How to access a method in a controller from another controller. Lets discuss that in this session. Lets say the controllers are PrintReportController and SubmitPerformanceController. There is an easy way.

app('App\Http\Controllers\PrintReportController')->getPrintReport();

This is bad in the case of code organization.

Creating a trait in app/Traits will implement the logic there and ask your controllers to use it.

trait PrintReport {

    public function getPrintReport() {
        // .....
    }
}

This will create trait now tell the controllers to use it as given below.

class PrintReportController extends Controller {
     use PrintReport;
}



class SubmitPerformanceController extends Controller {
     use PrintReport;
}

Both of the above methods will make SubmitPerformanceController to have getPrintReport method. Now call $this->getPrintReport(); from the controller or from the routes.