Working through an issue today, I needed to pass a parameter through to sub-routes inside a route group in Laravel. It’s not very well documented, and very powerful.
E.g. a signed in user can have a few apps. App with ID 3, 6, 10 etc.
Anything they do, once they’ve chosen which app they’re working on, should include the app ID in the URL.
Route::group(['prefix'=>'/apps/{id}'],function(){
Route::get('/test', function($id) {
echo $id;
});
});
There it is, nice and easy. the $id parameter from the group will pass down to the individual endpoints. Now we can have URLs like https://www.mydomain.com/apps/5/summary, which is so much nicer and self describing than relying on a session variable for the ‘selected’ app. Now multiple users in the same team can share links with each other, or a user can bookmark pages that are useful to them without losing state.
