How can I use "where" in a Laravel controller - php

Question

If I have the next route:
Route::get('/user/{id}', function($id) {
return View::make(users.profile, array('id' => $id));
})->where(array('id' => '[0-9]+'));`
How could I do the same in a Restful controller?
Route::controller('/user', 'UserController');
My UserController:
class UserController extends BaseController {
public function getProfile($id) {
return View::make('users.profile', array('id' => $id));
}
}
Thanks for your attention.

Answer 1

where doesn't appear to work when chained onto a Route::controller call, but you can achieve the same functionality with the Route::pattern declaration. So, for example, this code for a Route::controller (called "implicit routing") would work, limiting id to numeric:
Route::pattern('id', '\d+');
Route::controller('/user/{id}', 'UserController');
Then, in UserController, the getIndex method would be called from a GET request:
class UserController extends BaseController {
public function getIndex($id) {
return View::make('users.profile', array('id' => $id));
}
}
Note, however, that this only works for the index method, i.e. for calls to http:://example.com/user/99. If you want to use other controller methods using "implicit routing", for example http:://example.com/user/profile/99 and the controller method getProfile($id), you need to declare your route without the {id} parameter, like so:
Route::controller('/user', 'UserController');
...in which case, you aren't able to use ->where or Route::pattern to constrain the {id}, since there is no {id} parameter to constrain.
In the end, you're better off going with "explicit routing," as you do at the beginning of your answer, or using RESTful Resource Controllers (see the docs) and specifying your route as:
Route::resource('user', 'UserController');.
If you subscribe to Laracasts, Jeffrey Way has a great, clear tutorial about some of the perils of "implicit routing" here.

Answer 2

To make sure about the methods and URL run the php artisan routes from your terminal so you'll get the list of all routes you have access to with their URL. In this case for the following route and controller you may find a URL like user/profile/10
// Route
Route::controller('/user', 'UserController');
// Controller
class UserController extends BaseController {
public function getProfile($id) {
return View::make('users.profile', array('id' => $id));
}
}
So use http://domain.com/user/profile/10, here 10 will be passed to the $id variable in your profile method. Also remember that, in RESTfull controller each method should be prefixed with the HTTP verb they responds to so in this case this method will respond to a GET request.

Answer 3

In order to do it you want to wrap your Route::controller statements in a group and apply where pattern for the group, since setting it globally might not be accurate for other routes:
Route::group('where' => ['id' => '\d+'], function () {
Route::controller('users', 'UsersController');
// other restful controller definitions with this pattern go here
}