Laravel same route, different controller

Question

I would like to have general home page and a different homepage for logged-in users
I search a lot on google but I can\'t find what to put in my if statement

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Answer 1

ok after discussions on this platform and other forums, I come back with a compact solution

Route::get('/', array('as'=>'home', 'uses'=> (Auth::check()) ? "usercontroller@home" : "homecontroller@index" ));

Answer 2

// routes.php
Route::get('/', 'homecontroller@index');



// homecontroller.php
class homecontroller extends BaseController
{
    public function index()
    {
        if (!Auth:: check()) {
            return $this->indexForGuestUser();
        } else {
            return $this->indexForLoggedUser();
        }
    }

    private function indexForLoggedUser()
    {
        // do whatever you want
    }

    private function indexForGuestUser()
    {
        // do whatever you want
    }

}

Answer 3

You should try something like:

Route::get('/', array('as'=>'home', function(){
    if (!Auth::check()) {
        Redirect::to('home/index'));
    }
    else{
        Redirect::to('user/index'));
    }
}));

So you are basically redirecting the user based on the Auth check instead of defining an additional route.

Or use route filters

Route::filter('authenticate', function()
{
    if (!Auth::check())
    {
        return Redirect::to('home/index');
    }
});

Route::get('home', array('before' => 'authenticate', function()
{
    Redirect::to('user/index');
}));

http://laravel.com/docs/routing#route-filters

Answer 4

The most simple solution I can think of is:

<?php

$uses = 'HomeController@index';
if( ! Auth::check())
{
    $uses = 'HomeController@home';
}

Route::get('/', array(
     'as'=>'home'
    ,'uses'=> $uses
));

Or you can just route the url / to method index() and do the Auth::check() in there.