Question

Let say I have my user controller and there are action_index(), action_login(), action_logout() action_profile($userid) methods in it. I want to make a routing that

www.mysite.com/user/xxxx

checks the xxxx part of the url and if it is not one of (login,logout,index) it calls action_profile(xxxx) method.

Now I am doing it like this:
my routing routs all www.mysite.com/user/xxxx type of requests to action_index and it checks whether xxxx is a method name or not. If it is not a method name it calls action_profile(xxxx)

However, I think it is possible in a better way. How can I do it better?

Answer 1

Hmm I’m not sure if I understand what you’re asking. Routes in laravel are on a first match basis.

So you could just add the following to your routes.php:

Route::get('user/(:num)', 'user@profile');
Route::controller('user');

The first line is for routing user/xxx to action_profile() in user controller where xxx is any numerical value. While the second will maps any other URI (user/***/***) to corresponding user controller’s methods. That means it automatically maps user/login to action_login(), user/register to action_register() and so on.