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Omer Farooq
Omer Farooq

Reputation: 4084

Laravel 5 multiple "dashboard" route for admins and managers

(I have asked this question before, and did find a way around which worked for a while, but soon got out of hand. So now I am looking for a perfect solution to achieve this, the Laravel way.)

The problem is pretty simple, when admin goes to http://example.com/dashboard they should see the admin dashboard and when manager goes to the same link he should see the managers dashboard.

The way around that I used before was to call the pagecontroller and then depending on the user role call the relevant admin's or manager's dashboard controller. 

    // ROUTES.php
    Route::group(['middleware' => 'auth'], function () {
        Route::get('dashboard', 'PagesController@dashboard');
        Route::get('users', 'PagesController@manageUsers');
    });

    // PagesController
        public function dashboard(){

           if($this->user->isAdmin()){
                return $controller = app()->make('App\Http\Controllers\Admin\dashboard')->index();
            }
           if($this->user->isManager()){
                   return $controller = app()->make('App\Http\Controllers\Manager\dashboard')->index();
                }
        }

Now the problem with this approach is that I can no longer call the middleware on the dashboard controller because the process doesn't involve calling the kernel.

I am pretty sure there must be a way to achieve such a basic feature, I would be really grateful if someone can sort this out.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2915

Answers (1)

jfadich
jfadich

Reputation: 6348

I think the reason this isn't a Laravel default feature because it kinda goes counter to what routes are supposed to represent. In other words, this isn't the Laravel Way. Why not redirect the user depending on their role?

// ROUTES.php
Route::group(['middleware' => 'auth'], function () {
    Route::get('dashboard', function() {
        if($this->user->isAdmin())
            return redirect('/dashboard/admin');
        if($this->user->isManager())
            return redirect('/dashboard/manager');

        return redirect('/home');
    });

    Route::get('dashboard/admin', 'Admin\dashboard@index');
    Route::get('dashboard/manage', 'Manager\dashboard@index');
    Route::get('users', 'PagesController@manageUsers');
});

Upvotes: 4

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