Laravel multiple roles on same route - php

Question

This are currently my route implementation for user and auth roles on Laravel 5.1:
Route::group(['prefix' => 'admin', 'middleware' => 'auth:administrator'], function()
{
$a = 'admin.';
Route::get('/', ['as' => $a . 'home', 'uses' => 'AdminController#getHome']);
});
Route::group(['prefix' => 'user', 'middleware' => 'auth:user'], function()
{
$a = 'user.';
Route::get('/', ['as' => $a . 'home', 'uses' => 'UserController#getHome']);
});
I have another role where user can signup as merchant, but the issue is, how can I implement merchant route without duplicating the code, since both user and merchant using similar dashboard where merchant have extra features.
The implementation that currently worked is:
Route::group(['prefix' => 'user', 'middleware' => 'auth:merchant'], function()
{
$a = 'user.';
Route::get('/', ['as' => $a . 'home', 'uses' => 'UserController#getHome']);
});
Thanks!!

Answer 1

You should be able to pass on a list of middlewares to your route using an array.
Route::group(['prefix' => 'user', 'middleware' => ['auth:user', 'auth:merchant']], function()
{
$a = 'user.';
Route::get('/', ['as' => $a . 'home', 'uses' => 'UserController#getHome']);
});
However, I am not sure if this yields a result which does what you hope to achieve. Perhaps all this does is only allowing the route to users which belong to roles "user" AND "merchant", which probably isn't what you intend to do.