How to redirect excluding some slug in laravel routing? - laravel

Question

I would like to exclude the {user} in slug route
I want to make:
from example.com/user/someslugs
to exclude the {user} in slug route example.com/someslugs
// This my Verify Controller
class VerifyController extends Controller{
public function redirect($user, $slug){
// Get verify
$verify = Verify::slug($slug)->first();
// Check if verify exists
if (!$verify) {
abort(404);
}
// Redirect to url
return redirect($verify->url);
}
}
Function
// MyFunc
if (!function_exists('verify')) {
function verify($uri, $user){
$model = new \App\Models\Verify;
if (!validate_url($uri)) {
return false;
}
$createVerify = function($url) use ($model){
$slug = \Str::random(6);
$new = $model;
$new->url = $url;
$new->slug = $slug;
$new->save();
return $slug;
};
$route = function($slug, $user){
return route('verify', ['user' => $user, 'slug' => $slug]);
};
if (!$verify = $model->url($uri)->first()) {
$slug = $createVerify($uri);
return $route($slug, $user);
}
return $route($verify->slug, $user);
}
}
Route web.php
// MyRouteVerify
Route::get('{user}/{slug}', 'VerifyController#redirect')->name('verify');
The main problem when I remove {user} from route and wrong controller is called.
How can I achieve this? to get the full URL exclude the {user}, (example.com/someslugs)?
Any suggestion? And I would really appreciate some good and relative answer. Thanks!

Answer 1

in case you guarantee that your slug will never match your route, you can put your user route at the end of the web.php file
Example
// route list here
Route::get('/someroute', 'SomeController#somemethod');
// the last route in your web.php file
Route::get('/{slug}', 'VerifyController#redirect')->name('verify');
I hope it's useful