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Question

newbie in laravel.

In laravel sample routing

Route::get('books/{genre}', 'controller@method');

The link would be something like this

link.com/books/crime or link.com/books/programming

how do i do it if I want to get both genre?

if this possible is to achieve

link.com/books?genre=crime,programming

how do i write that in routes? and also how do i get the value in controller?

I have tried something like this. But I don't have any idea how to achieve it.

Route::get('books?{genre?}', 'controller@method');

Controller part

function method($fields = null) {
    return jsonData;
}

Found a way but its kinda awful...

route

Route::get('books', 'controller@method');

url

link.com/books?genre=crime,programming,love,religion

method

function method() {
     $array = explode(',',$_GET['fields');
     //.....
     return jsonData;
 }

Answer 1

there are few ways you can achieve that.

if want to achieve,

http://link.com/books/crime/programming

or

http://link.com/books/crime

you can use the following routes:

Route::get('books/{genre}/{genreOptional?}', function($genre, $genreOptional = null)
{
    dd($genre, $genreOptional);
});

or

Route::get('books/{genre}/{genreOptional?}', 'controller@method' );

Your controller:

public function method($genre, $genreOptional = NULL)
{
   //
}