Call Laravel routes and get response from pure php. Useful when you have existing project and want to use Laravel to achieve some tasks.

LaravelBridge.php

<?php

class LaravelBridge
{
    private static $app = null;
    private static $kernel = null;

    private static function init()
    {
        if (!self::$app || !self::$kernel) {
            require __DIR__ . '/path/to/laravel/bootstrap/autoload.php';
            self::$app = require_once __DIR__ . '/path/to/laravel/bootstrap/app.php';
            self::$kernel = self::$app->make(Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class);
        }
    }

    public static function app()
    {
        self::init();
        return self::$app;
    }

    public static function sendRequest($route, $method = 'GET', $params = null, $https = false)
    {
        self::init();

        $originalRequest = Illuminate\Http\Request::capture();
        $request = $originalRequest->duplicate();
        $request->server->set('REQUEST_URI',
            $https ? 'https' : 'http' . '://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $route);
        $request->server->set('REQUEST_METHOD', $method);
        if ($params != null) {
            $request->replace($params);
        }

        $response = self::$kernel->handle(
            $request
        );

        return $response->content();
    }


}