Laravel URL Architecture - php

Question

I am building a social networking application using Laravel 5, and I am slightly confused about the structure of the URLs.
Using a previous Stack Overflow post from another member, I have managed to grasp the basics (profiling, account, etc). Here is what I have so far:
http://myapp.com/account/create
http://myapp.com/account/login
http://myapp.com/account/logout
http://myapp.com/account/verify
http://myapp.com/account/verify/{token}
http://myapp.com/account/settings
http://myapp.com/profile/FooMan
And that's all well and good (at least I think so - any tips are welcome), but how do I go about creating a URL structure for things such as friends? I get that you could have:
http://myapp.com/profile/FooMan/friends
But to me, that seems ugly. And if I wanted to add a "/add" route to the friends, how would I go about that also? Thank you in advance!
P.S. On some of the pages, such as "login" and "create" I use the route::get() to display the form, and route::post() to submit the details to the controller. Is this bad practice?

Answer 1

I think following a standard system such as facebook or twitter would help with your routing approach.
To avoid lengthy urls, you can route directly to a profile via their user name, using a route such as:
Route::get('{username}', ...);
Route::get('{username}/friends', ...);
// etc
// Current user
Route::get('friends', ...);
Now, there will be occasions where a username may conflict with a core action such as domain.com/friends or domain.com/login. Establish a list of core actions and restrict users from signing up with those keywords. This is simple by using laravel's not in validation.