Laravel optional prefix routes with regexp

Question

Is there a way to create routes with prefixes so I can have routes like this

/articles.html -> goes to listing  Controller in default language
/en/article         


        

Answer 1

There doesn't seem to be any good way to have optional prefixes as the group prefix approach with an "optional" regex marker doesn't work. However it is possible to declare a Closure with all your routes and add that once with the prefix and once without:

$optionalLanguageRoutes = function() {
    // add routes here
}

// Add routes with lang-prefix
Route::group(
    ['prefix' => '/{lang}/', 'where' => ['lang' => 'fr|en']],
    $optionalLanguageRoutes
);

// Add routes without prefix
$optionalLanguageRoutes();