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Hasan
Hasan

Reputation: 2552

Conditional Routing in Laravel

Let say I have my user controller and there are action_index(), action_login(), action_logout() action_profile($userid) methods in it. I want to make a routing that

www.mysite.com/user/xxxx

checks the xxxx part of the url and if it is not one of (login,logout,index) it calls action_profile(xxxx) method.

Now I am doing it like this: my routing routs all www.mysite.com/user/xxxx type of requests to action_index and it checks whether xxxx is a method name or not. If it is not a method name it calls action_profile(xxxx)

However, I think it is possible in a better way. How can I do it better?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2434

Answers (2)

Jason Lewis
Jason Lewis

Reputation: 18665

I would recommend you avoid using Route::controller() in this instance. While it can be fine to use in some cases, for what you're after it would be better to map to the routes.

You could do it like so.

Route::get('user', 'user@index');
Route::get('user/(:num)', 'user@profile');
Route::get('user/(:any)', 'user@(:1)');

Or you could be a little stricter with your last route.

Route::get('user/(login|logout)', 'user@(:1)');

My reasoning for recommending you avoid Route::controller() is that it does create duplicates to some content. For example, yoursite.com/user will by duplicated on yoursite.com/user/index. This can be bad for search engine optimization.

Mapping to your actions gives you that extra flexibility and control.

Upvotes: 3

André Keller
André Keller

Reputation: 3199

Hmm I'm not sure if I understand what you're asking. Routes in laravel are on a first match basis.

So you could just add the following to your routes.php:

Route::get('user/(:num)', 'user@profile');
Route::controller('user');

The first line is for routing user/xxx to action_profile() in user controller where xxx is any numerical value. While the second will maps any other URI (user/***/***) to corresponding user controller's methods. That means it automatically maps user/login to action_login(), user/register to action_register() and so on.

Upvotes: 5

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