Trakt API for Laravel 5

This is a library to use the Trakt API in Laravel 5

Setup

To install this library you need to use composer, you can get it from here.

When you have that installed which you probably already have since you already made a laravel project, you can run the following command:

composer require itsdizzy/trakt-api 1.0.x-dev

Like any laravel library you have to tell laravel how it has to use it.

To do this you have to add the service provider to the providers array in config/app.php

Dizzy\Trakt\TraktServiceProvider::class

You also have to add a facade to the aliases array in config/app.php

'Trakt' => Dizzy\Trakt\Facades\Trakt::class,

Now laravel knows which bindings it has to create and which config files it has to load, and it made a nice little alias so you can just use the Trakt facade in your code.

Trakt also requires at least a api key, you can get one by creating a new application here. Now open your .env file and add set the TRAKT_CLIENT_ID with your client id

TRAKT_CLIENT_ID=yourclientidhere

Now you are all set to use the api.

Usage

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Trakt;

class MoviesController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * @param $id
     * @return array
     */
    public function getMovie($id)
    {
        $movie = Trakt::movies()->withImages()->get($id);

        return [
            'movie' => $movie->toArray(),
            'people' => $movie->people(),
            'releases' => $movie->releases()
        ];
    }
}

A better explanation will come soon.