I'm trying to create a dynamic route for an unlimited number of URL levels.
Here's my current route
Route::get('{pageLink}', array('uses' => 'SiteController@getPage'));
This works for the first level. So a URL like something.com/foo/ would work. But if I had something like something.com/foo/bar/ it wouldn't catch that URL. I need it to match unlimited levels. That way in my controller it'll get me a variable of whatever the entire link is.
I know I could do
Route::get('{pageLink}', array('uses' => 'SiteController@getPage'));
Route::get('{pageLink}/{pageLink2}', array('uses' => 'SiteController@getPage'));
Route::get('{pageLink}/{pageLink2}/{pageLink3}', array('uses' => 'SiteController@getPage'));
But that just seems like an overkill. Is there a better way to do this so it'll match to the end of the URL?
Thanks.
You can try something like this:
//routes.php
Route::get('{pageLink}/{otherLinks?}', 'SiteController@getPage')->where('otherLinks', '(.*)');
Remember to put the above on the very end (bottom) of routes.php file as it is like a 'catch all' route, so you have to have all the 'more specific' routes defined first.
//controller
class SiteController extends BaseController {
public function getPage($pageLink, $otherLinks = null)
{
if($otherLinks)
{
$otherLinks = explode('/', $otherLinks);
//do stuff
}
}
}
This approach should let you use unlimited amount of params, so this is what you seem to need.
@Fusion
https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/routing
You may constrain the format of your route parameters using the where method on a route instance. The where
method accepts the name of the parameter and a regular expression defining how the parameter should be constrained. so {id}
is a route parameter , and ->where('id', '[0-9]+')
is a regex expression for this parameter. If u need to use more than parameters you can do something like this :
Route::get('user/{id}/{id2}', function ($id) { })->where('id', '[0-9]+')->where('id2', '[[0-9]+]');
Route::get('user/{id}', function ($id) {
})->where('id', '[0-9]+');