Get controller action from url, laravel

Question

Can I get the controller action from given URL?

In my project, I will have different layout used for admin and normal users. i.e.

something.com/content/list - will show layout 1.

something.com/admin/content/list - will show layout 2.

(But these need to be generated by the same controller)

I have added filter to detect the pattern 'admin/*' for this purpose. Now I need to call the action required by the rest of the URL ('content/list' or anything that will appear there). Meaning, there could be anything after admin/ it could be foo/1/edit (in which case foo controller should be called) or it could be bar/1/edit (in which case bar controller should be called). That is why the controller name should be generated dynamically from the url that the filter captures,

So, I want to get the controller action from the URL (content/list) and then call that controller action from inside the filter.

Can this be done?

Answer 1

Thanks to everyone who participated.

I just found the solution to my problem in another thread. HERE

This is what I did.

if(Request::is('admin/*')) {
    $my_route = str_replace(URL::to('admin'),"",Request::url());

    $request = Request::create($my_route);
    return Route::dispatch($request)->getContent();
}

I could not find these methods in the documentation. So I hope, this will help others too.

Answer 2

You can use Request::segment(index) to get part/segment of the url

// http://www.somedomain.com/somecontroller/someaction/param1/param2
$controller = Request::segment(1); // somecontroller
$action = Request::segment(2); // someaction
$param1 = Request::segment(3); // param1
$param2 = Request::segment(3); // param2

Answer 3

Use this in your controller function -

if (Request::is('admin/*'))
{
    //layout for admin (layout 2)
}else{
    //normal layout (layout 1)
}

Answer 4

You can use RESTful Controller

Route:controller('/', 'Namespace\yourController');

But the method have to be prefixed by HTTP verb and I am not sure whether it can contain more url segment, in your case, I suggest just use:

Route::group(array('prefix' => 'admin'), function()
{
    //map certain path to certain controller, and just throw 404 if no matching route  
    //it's good practice
    Route::('content/list', 'yourController@yourMethod');

});