Routing in laravel

Question

i am little bit confused in routing of laravel-5.2 . I am facing one issue. I have two routes that are follows:-

Route::get('{businessname}',BusinessController@getBusiness) //first Route
Route::get('{username}','UsersController@getusername') //second route

So yo see that {businessname} and {username} is dynamic. But when i try to access the url like:-

Localhost:8000/dummy-business-name // this route is going to this function that is right .... -> BusinessController@getBusiness 

But when i try second route of username it is also going to getBusiness function

Localhost:8000/kanu-mahajan i want this function should be redirect to UsersController@getusername

I know the alternative of this thing we can define Route like that

Route::get('user/{username}','UsersController@getusername')

But i don't want to do it in this way. Please help me how to do above routing in laravel 5.2 .

Answer 1

You can't do that because it is basically the same route, just a different parameter.

You can do what you suggested with user/{username} or you can send all parameters to the same function and handle it from there.

For example:

Route::get('{name}', function ($name) {
    // if name is username then do something
    // or if name is business then do something else
});