具有不同控制器的Laravel 5.2中相同级别的动态路由

Question

I have a ProfileController and a CategoryController.

I want to show the profiles of my users with the following route:

my.domain.com/firstname.lastname
my.domain.com/firstname2.lastname2
...

Just like Facebook is doing it. Therefore, I want to handle this within my ProfileController so I ended up with a route like this:

Route::get('/{userSlug}', array('uses' => 'ProfileController@getProfile'));

That is no problem and it works fine. But now I want to show my categories like this:

my.domain.com/category-1
my.domain.com/category-2
...

The problem is, that I would do the route like this: Route::get('/{categorySlug}', array('uses' => 'CategoryController@getCategory')); but this route is already used by the profile.

I know I can use just one controller and check there if the slug is a userSlug or a categorySlug, but I really want to separate the profile logic from the category logic into their own controllers.

What is best practice here?

Answer 1

If your user routes will always be in the form of /firstname.lastname, you could try Regular Expression Constraints:

Route::get('/{userSlug}', array('uses' => 'ProfileController@getProfile'))
        ->where('name', '[a-z]+\.[a-z]+');

Then, follow that up with your catch-all category route. However, you'd be far better off to prefix your category URLs (like /category/category-1) instead.