I'm writing an api in Laravel 4. I'd like to pass query string parameters to my controllers. Specifically, I want to allow something like this:
api/v1/account?fields=email,acct_type
where the query params are passed along to the routed controller method which has a signature like this:
public function index($cols)
The route in routes.php looks like this:
Route::get('account', 'AccountApiController@index');
I am manually specifying all my routes for clarity and flexibility (rather than using Route::controller
or Route::resource
) and I am always routing to a controller and method.
I made a (global) helper function that isolates the 'fields' query string element into an array $cols
, but calling that function inside every method of every controller isn't DRY. How can I effectively pass the $cols
variable to all of my Route::get
routes' controller methods? Or, more generally, how can I efficiently pass one or more extra parameters from a query string through a route (or group of routes) to a controller method? I'm thinking about using a filter, but that seems a bit off-label.