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dansanb
dansanb

Reputation: 33

Laravel 4 route not working as expected

Thank you for taking the time to read this question. I have searched everywhere and cannot find the answer.

I am learning Laravel and are making a simple blog. I created a resource controller like so:

Route::resource('blog-posts', 'AdminBlogPostsController');

I was able to get all actions working fine (index, show, create, edit, update, delete) without any issues.

Since each blog post belongs to a category, I wanted the user to filter the blog-posts/index view by category, so I added this named route, BEFORE the resource declaration:

Route::get('blog-posts/{category_id?}', 'AdminBlogPostsController@index');
Route::resource('blog-posts', 'AdminBlogPostsController');

At this point, the user is able to filter by category just fine. However, if I navigate to 

blog-posts/create

The browser simply displays blog-posts/index route, and I am unable to create a new record. If I comment out the first route like so:

//Route::get('blog-posts/{category_id?}', 'AdminBlogPostsController@index');
Route::resource('blog-posts', 'AdminBlogPostsController');

I am able to create blog posts again, but I am unable to filter the view.

Any ideas how to begin debugging this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 48

Answers (1)

JoeMoe1984
JoeMoe1984

Reputation: 2032

Try adding a where condition at the end of the category route like so

Route::get('blog-posts/{category_id?}', 'AdminBlogPostsController@index')->where('category_id', '[0-9]+');

Basically this tells laravel to route to the index method if the second segment of the url is a digit.

Take a look at the Laravel documentation page for some more examples of this.

Upvotes: 2

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