Laravel 5 Resourceful Routes Plus Middleware

Question

Is it possible to add middleware to all or some items of a resourceful route?

For example...

<?php

Route::resource('quotes', 'QuotesController');

Furthermore, if possible, I wanted to make all routes aside from index and show use the auth middleware. Or would this be something that needs to be done within the controller?

Answer 1

In QuotesController constructor you can then use:

$this->middleware('auth', ['except' => ['index','show']]);

Reference: Controller middleware in Laravel 5

Answer 2

You could use Route Group coupled with Middleware concept: http://laravel.com/docs/master/routing

Route::group(['middleware' => 'auth'], function()
{
    Route::resource('todo', 'TodoController', ['only' => ['index']]);
});

Answer 3

In laravel 5.5 with php 7 it didn't worked for me with multi-method exclude until I wrote

Route::group(['middleware' => 'auth:api'], function() {

Route::resource('categories', 'CategoryController', ['except' => 'show,index']);
});

maybe that help someone.