In a Laravel 4 app, i'm using subdomain routing around a bunch of Route::resource's like this:
Route::group(['domain' => '{account}.my.app'], function()
{
Route::group(['before' => 'auth'], function($account)
{
Route::resource('organisations', 'OrganisationsController');
Route::resource('clients', 'ClientsController');
Route::resource('domains', 'DomainsController');
});
});
In my auth filter i'm doing the following:
Route::filter('auth', function($route)
{
// you could now access $account in a controller if it was passed as an argument to the method
$account = $route->getParameter('account');
// share account variable with all views
View::share('account', $account);
// Auth::guest Returns true if the current user is not logged in (a guest).
if (Auth::guest()) return Redirect::guest('login');
});
Within my views I can now access $account, but if I want a call to URL::route() to be correct I have to manually pass the account variable, like URL::route('clients.show',['account' => $account]) otherwise it generates URLs like %7Baccount%7D.my.app.
This is a bit of a pain and doesn't seem that elegant, is there any other or better way to achieve this? I guess I could create my own route helper to use instead of the built-in one.
However, I also do redirects with Redirect::route() within controllers so I would also need to make updates here.
EDIT
As suggested in the comments it may be that extending the Route API is the best approach here. Does anyone have any suggestions how this should be done?
Thanks.
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So I'm trying to build this application where users have their usernames in the domain name ( domain.com/hisusername for example) and this is what I did, so this is my route
Route::group(['prefix' => '/{username}'], function($username){
Route::get('/', 'UserController#UserProfile');
});
And my controller
public function UserProfile($username){
$user = User::where('username', $username)->first();
if (!$user) {
abort(404);
}
return view('pages.profile')
->with('user', $user);
}
It works fine the problem is when I try to add another route it gets confused with a username and it returns a 404 page, how can I fix that please?
Laravel renders routes from top to bottom. Often when I encounter this problem it's because I need to put my 'catch-all' routes below all the others.
That being said, I would strongly suggest doing something like domain.com/u/user instead to avoid conflicts with existing pages.
It may seem like a stretch, but if you ever had a someone with the username 'login' they might never be able to access their account.
Try like this
Route::group(['prefix' => 'user'], function($username){
Route::get('/{username}', 'UserController#UserProfile');
Route::get('/otherinfo', 'UserController#otherinfo');
});
Route::get('/more/other/route', 'OtherController#methodinfo');
in your browser it will display like. sample.com/user/yourUsername
Okay it's seem very easy :
Route::get('/{username}', ['uses' => 'UserController#UserProfile']);
I don't know why you have to use the group prefix? You just need to define a get routes as normal, you controller look good, it should work ! :)
I have a middleware that detects if a user owns a tournament.
So, if user want to edit a tournament he doesn't own, he will get a 403.
Thing is I can't make difference between laravel.dev/tournament/1/edit, and laravel.devl/tournament/1
Off course, I could check the "edit" word in URL, but I would prefer other better param...
I tried method param in Request Object, but it is giving me GET for both, so I can't make difference...
Any Idea???
In your case, you can do like this:
$request->route()->getName();
Now you can do your logic based on this.
What about using a different HTTP method for edit, e.g PATCH or PUT and declaring two different routes, something like:
Route::get('laravel.devl/tournament/1', 'TournamentController#showTournament');
Route::put('laravel.dev/tournament/1/edit', 'TournamentController#editTournament');
Then in the TournamentController you can check if the user has rights to edit.
It sounds like you should just use route specific middleware instead of global middleware. See https://laravel.com/docs/master/middleware#assigning-middleware-to-routes. Then you can just do:
Route::get('/tournament/{id}/edit', ['middleware' => ['tournamentOwner'], function () {
//
}]);
Route::get('/tournament/{id}', ['middleware' => [], function () {
//
}]);
If it's a RESTful route, you can just do:
public function __construct()
{
$this->middleware('tournamentOwner', ['only' => ['edit']]);
}
I'm using Laravel 5.1 and am building a service that can be seen as JSON or HTML. This approach is already done by sites like reddit.
Example
Normal view: http://www.reddit.com/r/soccer
JSON view: http://www.reddit.com/r/soccer.json
As you can see, they simply add .json to an URL and the user is able to see the exact same content either as HTML or as JSON.
I now wanted to reproduce the same in Laravel, however I'm having multiple issues.
Approach 1 - Optional parameter
The first thing I tried was adding optional parameter to all my routes
Route::get('/{type?}', 'HomeController#index');
Route::get('pages/{type?}', 'PageController#index');
However, the problem I was facing here, is that all routes were caught by the HomeController, meaning /pages/?type=json as well as /pages?type=json were redirected to the HomeController.
Approach 2 - Route Grouping with Namespaces
Next I tried to add route groupings with namespaces, to seperate backend and frontend
Route::get('pages', 'PageController#index');
Route::group(['prefix' => 'json', 'namespace' => 'Backend'], function(){
Route::get('pages', 'PageController#index');
});
However, this doesn't work either. It does work, when using api as prefix, but what I want, is that I can add .json to every URL and get the results as json. How can I achieve that in Laravel?
You can apply regular expressions on your parameters to avoud such catch-all situation as you have for HomeController#index:
Route::get('/pages{type?}', 'PageController#index'->where('type', '\.json'));
This way it type will only match, if it is equal to .json.
Then, to access it in your controller:
class PageController {
public function index($type = null) {
dd($type);
}
}
and go to /pages.json
I have just started tinkering with Laravel (PHP newbie alert) and I have a doubt on how to implement my REST JSON APIs on this framework.
The desired URL path should be:
http://api.mysite.com/APIKEY/FUNCTION/(ARGUMENTS)*
But what is the best way to do it?
I did not find any enough explanatory guide, because it is assumed that each feature (authentication, search, and so on) are on different routes.
At the moment I managed to create migrations and models for the needed data and I also set a route this way:
Route::get('/{apikey}/{function}/{arg1}/{arg2}/{arg3?}',
//The first two arguments are mandatory, the 3rd optional
function($apikey,$function,$arg1,$arg2)
{
return Response::json(array(
'status'=>'200'),
200);
})
->where(array('function'=>'[A-Za-z]+'));
This should be the correct action flow, but I have some doubts.
Check that apikey is valid, if not return a 404 json response. How do I call such function, where do I define it?
If key check is successful, understand which function is needed (should I use a switch construct or is there a better way to implement this, like a route group? In all examples with Route::group there is a static prefix, but here the prefix is apikey, a variable)
Return data - if available - getting it from the database. I suppose that for each function i should code a specific controller that gets data from the database using the Models.
#1. I think I'd probably use a route filter for this, like so:
Route::filter('apikey', function(){
if (Shared\API::checkIfKeyIsValid(Input::get('key') != true){
return Shared\Errors::handleError("bad-api-key");
}
});
You can see this filter checks to make sure some session variables are set and match, and if it returns ANYTHING, that's failing, and it won't send the user where the route normally goes. You'd call it in the route like so:
Route::get('play/{id}', array('before' => 'loggedin', 'uses' => 'ThingController#doThing'));
#2. I think a route group is how I'd structure this (if I understand what you're asking).
Edit: You've changed the question since I answered, regarding the prefix being a variable. I'd reorder your arguments so the API key is at the end, or you could take a look at this, which might do what you want: https://github.com/jasonlewis/enhanced-router
Route::group(array('prefix' => 'api'), function()
{
//the routes for all API calls
Route::group(array('prefix' => '/v1'), function()
{
//for version 1
Route::group(array('prefix' => '/thing', 'before' => 'loggedin'), function()
{
//for things only
Route::get('/getThing/{id}', 'APIController#getThing');
Route::get('/getDifferentThing/{id}/{aux}/{optional?}', 'APIController#getDifferentThing');
});
});
});
#3. The returning of the data should be done via your controller with the data coming from the model. Either return it as a view, or just return it as JSON like so:
return Response::json($data);
I am new to Laravel 4 and am having a hard time grasping routes. I have a frontend to my site and a backend. All the stuff that happens on the backend I want to have displayed under example.com/dashboard/.... I also want to use resourceful controllers. What do I need to setup in routes.php to have it so I can always refer to my users controller but have it all happen under dashboard in the URL?
Example:
I link to users/edit/1 but in the URL looks like example.com/dashboard/users/edit/1. Dashboard should have an index page (so example.com/dashboard actually shows a page) but all other URLs are appended to that.
I think this is covered pretty well in the Larvel 4 Documentation.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, this should get you the desired results for your example case:
Route::get('dashboard', 'DashboardController#index');
Route::get('dashboard/users/edit/{id}', 'UsersController#edit');
etc.
// edit
Alternatively, using a Closure callback, you could do something like this:
Route::get('dashboard/users/{var1}/{var2?}', function($var1, $var2 = null)
{
$controller = new UsersController;
return $controller->{$var1}($var2);
});
Which wouldn't require you to specify each and every route. Or, as I mentioned below in comments, you could use a Resource Controller if it suits your needs.