Admin Routes (or Prefix Routes) in Laravel 4 - php

Question

How can I create admin specific routes in Laravel 4 (Restfull Controllers):
/admin/users (get - /admin/users/index)
/admin/users/create (get)
/admin/users/store (post)
I want to know:
What Files and where I need create theam
How I need create the route

Answer 1

In Laravel 4 you can now use prefix:
Route::group(['prefix' => 'admin'], function() {
Route::get('/', 'AdminController#home');
Route::get('posts', 'AdminController#showPosts');
Route::get('another', function() {
return 'Another routing';
});
Route::get('foo', function() {
return Response::make('BARRRRR', 200);
});
Route::get('bazz', function() {
return View::make('bazztemplate');
});
});

Answer 2

For your subfolders, as I answer here "route-to-controller-in-subfolder-not-working-in-laravel-4", seems to have no "friendly" solution in this laravel 4 beta.
#Aran, if you make it working fine, please add an code sample of your controller, route, and composer.json files :
Route::resource('admin/users', 'admin.Users');
or
Route::resource('admin', 'admin.Users');
thanks

Answer 3

Really useful tool that you can use is the artisan CLI.
Using this you'll be able to generate the needed function file with all the required routes for it to become RESTful.
php artisan controller:make users
Would generate the function file for you. Then in your routes.php file you can simply add
Route::resource('users', 'Users');
This'll setup all the necessary routes.
For more information on this you should read the documentation at.
http://four.laravel.com/docs/routing#resource-controllers
http://four.laravel.com/docs/artisan
Edit:
To make this admin specific, simple alter the code like follows and move the controller to a admin folder inside the controllers folder.
Route::resource('admin/users', 'admin.Users');
The first paramater is the route, the second is the controller filename/folder.
In Laravel if you placed a controller inside a folder, to specific it in a route or URL you'd use the a dot for folders.
You can then expand on this and add Authentication using Route Filters and specifically the code found "Pattern Based Filters" found on the page below.
http://four.laravel.com/docs/routing#route-filters

Answer 4

Laravel 4 - Add Admin Controller Easily
This was driving me insane for ages, but i worked it out.
routes.php
Route::resource('admin', 'Admin_HomeController#showIndex');
/controllers/Admin/HomeController.php
Notice the folder name Admin must be captital 'A'
<?php
class Admin_HomeController extends Controller {
public function showIndex() {
return 'Yes it works!';
}
}
Alternatively you can use the group method
Route::group(array('prefix' => 'admin'), function() {
Route::get('/', 'Admin_HomeController#showIndex');
});
Thanks
Daniel