Introduction

• Authentication
• CSRF protection

app/Http/Middleware

Defining Middleware

# php artisan make:middleware OldMiddleware

namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use Closure;
class OldMiddleware
{
    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        if ($request->input('age') <= 200) {
            return redirect('home');
        }
        return $next($request);
    }
}

Before / After Middleware

namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use Closure;
class BeforeMiddleware
{
    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
         return $next($request);
    }
}

Before / After Middleware

namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use Closure;
class AfterMiddleware
{
    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        $response = $next($request);

        return $response;
    }
}

Global Middleware

For every HTTP request to your application

Simply list the middleware class in the $middleware property of your app/Http/Kernel.php class.

Assigning Middleware To Routes

// Within App\Http\Kernel Class...
protected $routeMiddleware = [
    'auth' => \App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate::class,
    'auth.basic' => \Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\AuthenticateWithBasicAuth::class,
    'guest' => \App\Http\Middleware\RedirectIfAuthenticated::class,
];

Route::get('admin/profile', ['middleware' => 'auth', function () {

    //
}]);

Middleware Parameters

class RoleMiddleware
{
    public function handle($request, Closure $next, $role)
    {
        if (! $request->user()->hasRole($role)) {
            // Redirect...
        }
        return $next($request);
    }
}
Route::put('post/{id}', ['middleware' => 'role:editor', function ($id) {

    //
}]);

Introduction

• handling logic in a single routes.php

• Organize this behavior using Controller classes
• app/Http/Controllers directory

Basic Controllers

class UserController extends Controller
{
    public function showProfile($id)
    {
        return view('user.profile', ['user' => User::findOrFail($id)]);
    }
}

Route::get('user/{id}', 'UserController@showProfile');

Controllers & Namespaces

If your full controller class is App\Http\Controllers\Photos\AdminController, you would register a route like so:

Route::get('foo', 'Photos\AdminController@method');

Naming Controller Routes

Route::get('foo', ['uses' => 'FooController@method', 'as' => 'name']);

$url = action('FooController@method');

$url = route('name');

Controller Middleware

Route::get('profile', [
    'middleware' => 'auth',
    'uses' => 'UserController@showProfile'
]);
class UserController extends Controller

{
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware('auth');
        $this->middleware('log', ['only' => ['fooAction', 'barAction']]);
        $this->middleware('subscribed', ['except' => ['fooAction', 'barAction']]);
    }
}

RESTful Resource Controllers

# php artisan make:controller PhotoController

Above command will create: app/Http/Controllers/PhotoController.php

Register a resourceful route:

Route::resource('photo', 'PhotoController');

Actions Handled By Resource Controller

        Verb        Path            Action    Route 

Partial Resource Routes

Route::resource('photo', 'PhotoController',
                ['only' => ['index', 'show']]);

Route::resource('photo', 'PhotoController',
                ['except' => ['create', 'store', 'update', 'destroy']]);

Naming Resource Routes

Route::resource('photo', 'PhotoController',
                ['names' => ['create' => 'photo.build']]);

Nested Resources

Route::resource('photos.comments', 'PhotoCommentController');

URL: photos/{photos}/comments/{comments}

class PhotoCommentController extends Controller
{

    public function show($photoId, $commentId)
    {
        //
    }
}

Supplementing Resource Controllers

you should define related routes before your call to Route::resource;

Route::get('photos/popular', 'PhotoController@method');

Route::resource('photos', 'PhotoController');

Implicit Controllers

Route::controller('users', 'UserController');

class UserController extends Controller
{

    public function getIndex()
    {}
    public function getShow($id)
    {}
    public function getAdminProfile()
    {}
    public function postProfile()
    {}
}

Assigning Route Names

If you would like to name some of the routes on the controller, you may pass an array of names as the third argument to the controller method:

Route::controller('users', 'UserController', [
    'getShow' => 'user.show',
]);