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Reputation: 10077

laravel 5 nested routing issue

New to Laravel 5, and building a little Rest test app. So I'm envisioning 2 different endpoints for a single controller.

/myApp/public/index.php/states/{state}/cities  //returns cities in a state

and 

/myApp/public/index.php/states/{state}/cities/{city}  //will do somethin else

its a little unclear to me how to set up the routes for this. I suppose I could have these endpoints use the same controller method, but it seems like better architecture to just route each to its own method.

So far, I've got 2 things that each individually work, but dont work together:

in routes.php

//route to the first endpoint
Route::resource('states.cities', 'StatesController');
//routes to the second endpoint if first is uncommented,otherwise blank page with no errors in log
Route::resource('states.cities', 'StatesController@cities');

And the relevant part of my controller code:

class StatesController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return Response
     */
    public function index(Request $request, $state)
    {
        //works
        $cities = States::where('state', '=', $state)->lists('name');
        echo json_encode($cities);
    }


    public function cities(Request $request, $state, $city)
    {
        echo "second request";
        echo $state;
        echo $city;
    }
    ......

Any one have any ideas on the proper way to handle this going forward? Cheers!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 252

Answers (1)

hhsadiq
hhsadiq

Reputation: 2943

Try this.

Route::get('states/{state}/cities', [
    'as' => 'state.cities',
    'uses' => 'StatesController@index'
]);

And second.

Route::get('states/cities/{state}/{city}', [
    'as' => 'city.of.state',
    'uses' => 'StatesController@cities'
]);

Note: There is no need to use resource route in this case. The resource routes creates the whole array of different routes which you really don't need. Resource controllers

Upvotes: 3

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