Laravel 5 Entrust one route - load different contr

Question

So I'm just starting to learn Laravel and I've implemented the Entrust Role Permission package, which works really well. Now my question is, I'd like to have a 'Dashboard' page like so: example.com/dashboard.

The thing is, I'm not sure how to set this up. Since In my App\Http\Controllers folder I made subfolders for Admin and User, they both have a Dashboardcontroller since I want to show different data for either type of user.

How can I declare a route that would point to Dashboard and check which Role the authenticated user has, then loads the correct controller? Does it have to do something with namespaces? I haven't really found a good answer yet

So trying to be more clear, I don't want to have to do this: example.com/dashboard/admin and example.com/dashboard/user, rather just one url example.com/dashboard and check which role the user has.

I'm sorry if the answer is really obvious, this stuff is new to me and I haven't found any good answer yet.

Answer 1

Something like this should work for you.

routes.php

Route::get('/dashboard', ['as'=>'dashboard', 'uses'=> 'DashboardController@dashboard']);

DashboardController.php

use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

use App\User;
use App\Admin;

class DashboardController extends Controller {
    public function dashboard(){
        if ($this->auth->user()->hasRole('admin') )
        {
            return $this->showAdminDashboard();
        }
        elseif ($this->auth->user()->hasRole('user') )
        {
            return $this->showUserDashboard();
        }
        else {
            abort(403);
        }
    }

    private function showUserDashboard()
    {
        return view('dashboard.user');
    }

    private function showAdminDashboard()
    {
        return view('dashboard.admin');
    }
}

Edits per comment

It sounds like something like this approach might be what you are looking for.

<?php

$uses = 'PagesController@notfound';
if( $this->auth->user()->hasRole('admin') )
{
    $uses = 'AdminController@index';
}
elseif ($this->auth->user()->hasRole('user') )
{
    $uses = 'UsersController@index';
}


Route::get('/dashboard', array(
     'as'=>'home'
    ,'uses'=> $uses
));

That said, I feel like having a DashboardController works better. I find when using a dashboard, I pull from a variety of models for the opening page to get statistics about the site. I would use the DashboardController only for this general information. From the Dashboard, I would like to other pages that have the specific items you want to view/edit. This way if the admins need to access view/edit the same information as the users, you do not need to rewrite code. You can just update the security on that particular controller to allow for both groups.