How to pass extra parameters to controller from Laravel route - php

Question

I'm trying to handle basic validation of my API calls in the Laravel's routes. Here is what I want to achieve:
Route::group(['prefix' => 'api/v1/properties/'], function () {
Route::get('purchased', 'PropertiesController#getPropertyByProgressStatus', function () {
//pass variable x = 1 to the controller
});
Route::get('waiting', 'PropertiesController#getPropertyByProgressStatus', function () {
//pass variable x = 2 to the controller
});
});
Long story short, depending on the segment of the URI after api/v1/properties/ I want to pass a different parameter to the controller. Is there a way to do that?

Answer 1

I was able to get it to work with the following route.php file:
Route::group(['prefix' => 'api/v1/properties/'], function () {
Route::get('purchased', [
'uses' => 'PropertiesController#getPropertyByProgressStatus', 'progressStatusId' => 1
]);
Route::get('remodeled', [
'uses' => 'PropertiesController#getPropertyByProgressStatus', 'progressStatusId' => 1
]);
Route::get('pending', [
'uses' => 'PropertiesController#getPropertyByProgressStatus', 'progressStatusId' => 3
]);
Route::get('available', [
'uses' => 'PropertiesController#getPropertyByProgressStatus', 'progressStatusId' => 4
]);
Route::get('unavailable', [
'uses' => 'PropertiesController#getPropertyByProgressStatus', 'progressStatusId' => 5
]);
});
and the following code in the controller:
public function getPropertyByProgressStatus(\Illuminate\Http\Request $request) {
$action = $request->route()->getAction();
print_r($action);
Pretty much the $action variable is going to let me access the extra parameter that I passed from the route.

Answer 2

I think that you can do it directly in the controller and receiving the value as a parameter of your route:
First you need to specify the name of the parameter in the controller.
Route::group(['prefix' => 'api/v1/properties/'], function ()
{
Route::get('{parameter}', PropertiesController#getPropertyByProgressStatus');
In this way, the getPropertyByProgressStatus method is going to receive this value, so in the controller:
class PropertiesController{
....
public function getPropertyByProgressStatus($parameter)
{
if($parameter === 'purchased')
{
//do what you need
}
elseif($parameter === 'waiting')
{
//Do another stuff
}
....
}
I hope it helps to solve your issue.
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Best wishes.
----------- Edited ---------------
You can redirect to the route that you want:
Route::group(['prefix' => 'api/v1/properties/'], function () {
Route::get('purchased', function () {
return redirect('/api/v1/properties/purchased/valueToSend');
});
Route::get('waiting', function () {
return redirect('/api/v1/properties/waiting/valueToSend');
});
Route::get('purchased/{valueToSend}', PropertiesController#getPropertyByProgressStatus);
});
Route::get('waiting/{valueToSend}', PropertiesController#getPropertyByProgressStatus);
});
});
The last two routes response to the redirections and send that value to the controller as a parameter, is the most near that I think to do this directly from the routes.