Project Setup & Bookings CRUD

For this project, we will be creating a simple process for bookings: meaning booking an appointment, a calendar event, or whatever else. And our goal with the timezones is to save/process the booking data according to the user's timezone.

Since this course is not about creating CRUD, I will just quickly run through it as a "setup".

First, we install Laravel with Breeze Starter kit:

laravel new timezones
cd timezones
composer require laravel/breeze --dev
php artisan breeze:install blade

Then, we generate the Model/Migration/Controller for bookings:

php artisan make:model Booking -mcrR

And then fill in all the CRUD for listing/creating/editing your own bookings for each user.

Full code is available in (GitHub Repository)[https://github.com/LaravelDaily/laravel-timezones-course]

The main files for Bookings CRUD:

• app/Models/Booking.php - Our main Booking Model
• app/Http/Controllers/BookingController.php - Our main Controller with all CRUD methods
• app/Http/Requests/StoreBookingRequest.php - Store Request
• app/Http/Requests/UpdateBookingRequest.php - Update Request
• resources/views/bookings - Blade Views for index, create, and edit

So you would understand better, here's the Controller code.

app/Http/Controllers/BookingController.php:

use App\Http\Requests\StoreBookingRequest;
use App\Http\Requests\UpdateBookingRequest;
use App\Models\Booking;
use Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
 
class BookingController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $bookings = Booking::query()
            ->with(['user'])
            ->get();
 
        return view('bookings.index', compact('bookings'));
    }
 
    public function create()
    {
        return view('bookings.create');
    }
 
    public function store(StoreBookingRequest $request): RedirectResponse
    {
        $request->user()->bookings()->create($request->validated());
 
        return redirect()->route('booking.index');
    }
 
    public function edit(Booking $booking)
    {
        return view('bookings.edit', compact('booking'));
    }
 
    public function update(UpdateBookingRequest $request, Booking $booking): RedirectResponse
    {
        $booking->update($request->validated());
 
        return redirect()->route('booking.index');
    }
 
    public function destroy(Request $request, Booking $booking): RedirectResponse
    {
        abort_unless($booking->user_id === $request->user()->id, 404);
 
        $booking->delete();
 
        return redirect()->route('booking.index');
    }
}

That's it! This will be our starting point for the whole course. From here, we can add timezone-related functionality.