laravel - How to call several actions from within another action? -

i'm migrating non-mvc application laravel 4.2 , i'm unsure of best way accomplish task. have several reports created on routes this:

/reports/this_report /reports/that_report /reports/another_report 

these actions query database, run bunch of calculations, , generate html tables , forms.

what need add page this:

/reports/dashboard 

this dashboard page should display output of 3 reports in condensed format, each "click view details" link takes user main report page.

is there way dashboard action call each of report actions, , use output data in dashboard view?

here's little code of how this. i'm not sure how have structured, might have adapt little.

lets have route dashboard this.

route::get('/reports/dashboard', dashboardcontroller@showdashboard');

this route should call controller method processing.

class dashboardcontroller extends basecontroller  {      public function showdashboard()     {         return view::make('dashboard')->with(array(             'report1_data'    => $this->getreport1data(),             'report2_data'    => $this->getreport2data(),             'report3_data'    => $this->getreport3data()         ));     }      public function getreport1data() { //calculations, return array of results }      public function getreport2data() { //calculations, return array of results }      public function getreport3data() { //calculations, return array of results }      public function showthisreport()     {         $data = $this->getreport1data();         return view::make('report')->with(array('data' => $data));     }      public function showthatreport()     {         $data = $this->getreport2data();         return view::make('report')->with(array('data' => $data));     }      public function showanotherreport()     {         $data = $this->getreport3data();         return view::make('report')->with(array('data' => $data));     }  } 

so, dashboard method call other methods (that include in controller) query database , calculate reports.

then returns view of data. view format data , display user.

now, make can see detailed view of each report, suggest adding couple more methods , routes show detailed views.

route::get('/reports/this_report', 'dashboardcontroller@showthisreport'); route::get('/reports/that_report', 'dashboardcontroller@showthatreport'); route::get('/reports/another_report', 'dashboardcontroller@showanotherreport');

i hope helps! luck.