Laravel 4 prefix variable routing

Question

I am trying to pass the username via the url.

site.tld/{username}/account

So i have this entry here in my routes

Route::group(array('prefix' => '{username}'), function($username)
{
    $user = User::whereUsername($username)->first();
    if(!is_null($user))
    {
        Route::get('portfolio', 'PortfolioController@getIndex');
        Route::get('profile', 'ProfileController@getIndex');
        ....
    }
}

i get the following error.

Object of class Illuminate\Routing\Router could not be converted to string

What am i doing wrong?

Antonio Carlos Ribeiro · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-25 23:49:57Z

1

Route::group() does not work the same way as Route::method(), the closure is executed during the route listing procedure and what is passed to it is the router, not your parameter:

Route::group(array('prefix' => '{username}'), function($router) { ... });

So you are basically doing:

$user = User::whereUsername($router)->first();

That's why it says

Object of class Illuminate\Routing\Router could not be converted to string

But you may user a filter:

Route::filter('age', function($route, $request)
{
    if (! User::whereUsername($route->parameter('username'))->first())
    {
        App::abort(404);
    }
});

Route::group(array('prefix' => '{username}', 'before' => 'age'), function($username)
{
    Route::get('portfolio', 'PortfolioController@getIndex');
    Route::get('profile', 'ProfileController@getIndex');
});

edited Mar 25, 2014 at 23:49

answered Mar 25, 2014 at 23:34

Antonio Carlos Ribeiro

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