Laravel 5.7.6 resource route with auth - php

Question

I'm starting my first Laravel project (first MVC / OOPHP project infact) and could use some help with routes.
I followed the guide at https://medium.com/employbl/easily-build-administrator-login-into-a-laravel-5-app-8a942e4fef37 to add a check if user is admin when loading a page. It works for normal view routes, e.g.
Route::get('/admin/something', 'AdminController#admin_something')
->middleware('is_admin')
->name('admin');
But I now have a resource route and get an error when I add the two -> lines to the route. So this works with no auth:
Route::resource('thingies', 'ThingyController');
But with this:
Route::resource('thingies', 'ThingyController')
->middleware('is_admin')
->name('admin');
I get the error Symfony \ Component \ Debug \ Exception \ FatalThrowableError (E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR)
Too few arguments to function Illuminate\Routing\PendingResourceRegistration::name(), 1 passed in /var/www/routes/web.php on line 24 and exactly 2 expected
What do I need to do differently to add this auth to a resource route?
The is_admin() function from the tutorial:
const ADMIN_TYPE = 'admin';
const DEFAULT_TYPE = 'default';
public function isAdmin() {
return $this->type === self::ADMIN_TYPE;
}
And the middleware:
namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use Closure;
class IsAdmin
{
/**
* Handle an incoming request.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #param \Closure $next
* #return mixed
*/
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
if(auth()->user()->isAdmin()) {
return $next($request);
}
return redirect('home');
}
}

Answer 1

You can't name your route "admin" with ->name('admin'); at the end of your resource route because it concerns all CRUD routes in one statement and Laravel build-in system has already named them.
You're on the good way, just delete the last line like so, it should works :
Route::resource('thingies', 'ThingyController')
->middleware('is_admin');

Answer 2

You cannot give a 'name' to a resource route. but you can give names to each method in the resource controller separately.
to do so name() function required 2 parameters.
method name
name for that method route.
,
Route::resource('thingies', 'ThingyController')
->middleware('is_admin')
->name('create', 'admin.create');