Laravel 5 - Determine if route belongs to user - php

Question

What I am looking to achieve here is to have the username set as myapp.com/username. I can achieve this by doing:
/*
* Other route logic, containing static-url pages, such as
* myapp.com/login so that it overrides any usernames
*/
Route::get('/{username}', function($username) {
return $username . "'s profile.";
});
However, I also want to include company pages following the same rule. For example, myapp.com/janes-bakery. But I cannot seem to achieve this because Laravel automatically stops searching for routes if it comes across one that returns nothing. Instead it will just throw a 404 page.
I did think that I could use something similar along these lines:
Route::get('/{slug}', ['as' => 'profile', function($slug) {
$company = \App\Models\Company::where('slug', '=', $slug)->get();
if($company->count() > 0) {
return "Company found.";
}
$user = \App\User::where('username', '=', $slug)->get();
if($user->count() > 0) {
return "User found.";
}
abort(404);
}]);
Which works fine, however I feel as though it's bad practice. Besides that, I cannot access suffix routes based on the company/user. For example myapp.com/jane/friends or myapp.com/janes-bakery/services.
Does anybody have any recommendations on how to go about this? I am finding it very hard to think of any solutions. Thank you in advance!
P.S. It is important the URLs have no correlation, e.g. no myapp.com/company/user (or vice versa), myapp.com/company_name_here and myapp.com/users_name_here are two totally separate things.

Answer 1

You can stick with your route and make another route with company/user pattern. You can do it this way.
Create another route with company and user parameter.
Route::get('{company}/{user}', function($company, $user){
dd($company, $user);
});
And you need to put this route above your profile route because, in laravel, the first route present will be processed before the others routes below.