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Reputation: 489

How to use Laravels Auth method to authenticate access to a controller?

I've been reading http://codehappy.daylerees.com and getting into Laravel gradually, but I stumbled upon some confusion after trying to get authentication working.

The examples on that site in the majority use closures and basically do a lot of things I personally do in controllers inside the routes.php file. No problem, Laravel let's me use controllers and routes, however let's say I wish to restrict access to my admin panel in the routes. So don't let users go to http://example.com/admin without first authenticating. The explanations cover that, but using closures/anonymous functions. So with closures it would look like this:

Route::get('admin', array('before' => 'auth', 'do' => function() {
  // return admin view
}));

So I tried to use it the same way, but with a controller like this:

Route::get('admin', array('before' => 'auth', 'do' => 'admin_controller@index'));

Which results in a white page.

So my question is how can I forward the 'get' to a controller instead of handling it with a closure while still authenticating?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 132

Answers (1)

Muhammad Usman
Muhammad Usman

Reputation: 12503

Use uses instead of do

Route::get('admin', array('before' => 'auth', 'uses' => 'admin_controller@index'));

Upvotes: 2

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