update to laravel 5.8.* & make necessary changes

app/Http/Controllers/UserController.php

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace app\Http\Controllers;
+
+use Illuminate\Http\Request;
+
+class UserController extends Controller
+{
+    function getUser(Request $request)
+    {
+        return $request->user();
+    }
+}

app/Http/Controllers/WebController.php

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace app\Http\Controllers;
+
+use Illuminate\Http\Request;
+
+
+class WebController extends Controller
+{
+    function homepage(Request $request)
+    {
+
+        if (Upload::canUpload($request->ip()) !== true) {
+            return view('cannotupload', [
+                'u' => $request->get('u')
+            ]);
+        } else {
+            return redirect()->route('upload.create');
+        }
+
+    }
+}

composer.json

@@ -5,14 +5,14 @@
     "license": "MIT",
     "type": "project",
     "require": {
-        "php": ">=5.6.4",
-        "laravel/framework": "5.4.*",
-        "laravel/tinker": "~1.0"
+        "php": "^7.1.3",
+        "laravel/framework": "5.8.*",
+        "laravel/tinker": "^1.0"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "fzaninotto/faker": "~1.4",
-        "mockery/mockery": "0.9.*",
-        "phpunit/phpunit": "~5.7"
+        "mockery/mockery": "^1.0",
+        "phpunit/phpunit": "^7.5"
     },
     "autoload": {
         "classmap": [

routes/api.php

@@ -13,6 +13,4 @@ use Illuminate\Http\Request;
 |
 */
 
-Route::middleware('auth:api')->get('/user', function (Request $request) {
-    return $request->user();
-});
+Route::middleware('auth:api')->get('/user', "UserController@getUser");

routes/console.php

@@ -12,7 +12,3 @@ use Illuminate\Foundation\Inspiring;
 | simple approach to interacting with each command's IO methods.
 |
 */
-
-Artisan::command('inspire', function () {
-    $this->comment(Inspiring::quote());
-})->describe('Display an inspiring quote');

routes/web.php

@@ -13,18 +13,7 @@ use Illuminate\Http\Request;
 |
 */
 
-Route::get('/', function(Request $request) {
-
-    if (Upload::canUpload($request->ip()) !== true) {
-        return view('cannotupload', [
-            'u' => $request->get('u')
-        ]);
-    }
-    else {
-        return redirect()->route('upload.create');
-    }
-
-})->name('homepage');
+Route::get('/', "WebController@homepage")->name('homepage');
 
 Route::prefix('upload')->middleware(['web', 'upload'])->group(function () {
     Route::get('/', [