---
title: "DI and actions — Certificates for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Skip the facade: inject CertificatesManager for the same API, or call the seven single-purpose actions directly from your own code."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/certificates-for-laravel/without-facade
language: en
---

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# DI and actions

The facade is the recommended default, not the only way in. Three entry points reach the same behaviour:

- The Certificates facade — the shortest form, used throughout these docs.
- The manager, RoundlyConsulting\\Certificates\\CertificatesManager — the facade root. Inject it through the constructor for the same API as an explicit dependency, with no static calls.
- The actions — single-purpose classes with one execute(), for composing into your own actions, jobs and commands.

## Inject the manager, or call an action

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\Certificates\Actions\RevokeCertificateAction;
use RoundlyConsulting\Certificates\CertificatesManager;
use RoundlyConsulting\Certificates\DataTransferObjects\IssueCertificateData;

final class SiteCertificates
{
    public function __construct(private CertificatesManager $certificates) {}

    public function launch(string $domain): void
    {
        $this->certificates->issue(IssueCertificateData::make($domain));
        $this->certificates->for($domain)->renewLater();
    }
}

// The raw use case, e.g. from your own action:
app(RevokeCertificateAction::class)->execute($certificate, 'key compromise');
```

The certificates() helper returns the same manager instance as app(CertificatesManager::class). It used to return the driver manager — that is now CertificateProviderManager, reached through Certificates::driver() and Certificates::extend():

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\Certificates\CertificatesManager;

$certificates = app(CertificatesManager::class);  // the facade root
$certificates = certificates();                   // the helper — the same instance

certificates()->renew('shop.example.com');
```

## Facade method → action

Every action lives in RoundlyConsulting\\Certificates\\Actions as a final readonly class with constructor injection. All of them are reachable from the facade; none is internal:

| Facade method | Action | execute() |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `issue(), issueIfMissing(), generate(), for()->issue()` | `IssueCertificateAction` | `(IssueCertificateData $data, ?string $connection = null): Certificate` |
| `renew(), for()->renew()` | `RenewCertificateAction` | `(Certificate $certificate): Certificate` |
| `renewDue()` | `RenewDueCertificatesAction` | `(?int $thresholdDays = null, bool $queue = false, ?string $connection = null): RenewalReport` |
| `revoke(), for()->revoke()` | `RevokeCertificateAction` | `(Certificate $certificate, ?string $reason = null): Certificate` |
| `expire(), for()->expire()` | `ExpireCertificateAction` | `(Certificate $certificate): Certificate` |
| `sync()` | `SyncCertificatesAction` | `(?string $driver = null, ?string $connection = null): int` |
| `prune()` | `PruneCertificatesAction` | `(int $days = 30, CertificateStatus\|string\|null $status = null, ?string $connection = null): int` |
| `renewLater(), for()->renewLater()` | — (dispatches RenewCertificateJob) | The job runs RenewCertificateAction. |

The manager resolves the action from the container on every call, so a container binding that overrides an action applies to the facade, the handle and the commands alike. IssueCertificateAction, RenewDueCertificatesAction, SyncCertificatesAction and PruneCertificatesAction take the registry connection as their last argument; the others act on the Certificate you pass. IssueCertificateAction takes an IssueCertificateData DTO:

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\Certificates\Actions\IssueCertificateAction;
use RoundlyConsulting\Certificates\Actions\RenewDueCertificatesAction;
use RoundlyConsulting\Certificates\DataTransferObjects\IssueCertificateData;

$certificate = app(IssueCertificateAction::class)->execute(
    IssueCertificateData::make('shop.example.com'),
    'tenant', // optional registry connection
);

$report = app(RenewDueCertificatesAction::class)->execute(7, queue: true, connection: 'tenant');
```

Certificates::fake() swaps the container binding too, so constructor-injected managers are recorded like facade calls. Calling an action directly bypasses the manager — and with it the fake.

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