refactoring for dependency injection and testability.

laravel/controller.php

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+<?php namespace Laravel;
+
+abstract class Controller {
+
+	/**
+	 * A stub method that will be called before every request to the controller.
+	 *
+	 * If a value is returned by the method, it will be halt the request process
+	 * and will be considered the response to the request.
+	 *
+	 * @param  Request  $request
+	 * @return mixed
+	 */
+	public function before(Request $request) {}
+
+	/**
+	 * Magic Method to handle calls to undefined functions on the controller.
+	 */
+	public function __call($method, $parameters) { return new Error('404'); }
+
+}