Multiple update methods in same controller Laravel 6 - laravel

Question

I am currently trying to build a user registration system with edit fields. At the edit portion, I had to create separate views for editing/updating personal details, email, and passwords.
I started with an empty resource controller. it had only one edit method. Hence I added additional edit methods. Each method can have a separate route. However, I have a hard time having a separate route for each update method in each section as the resource has only one route like this in docs:
PUT/PATCH /photos/{photo} update photos.update
Is there any workaround for this?
Controller
class UserController extends Controller
{
public function __construct()
{
$this->middleware(['auth', 'verified']);
}
public function index()
{
return view('users.index');
}
public function edit_personal(User $user)
{
$user_profile = User::find($user->id);
return view('users.edit.personal', ['users' => $user_profile]);
}
public function update_personal(Request $request, User $user)
{
// How to write route for this method.
}
public function edit_email(User $user)
{
$user_profile = User::find($user->id);
return view('users.edit.email', ['users' => $user_profile]);
}
public function update_email(Request $request, User $user)
{
// How to write route for this method.
}
public function edit_password(User $user)
{
$user_profile = User::find($user->id);
return view('users.edit.password', ['users' => $user_profile]);
}
}
Routes
Auth::routes(['verify' => true]);
Route::get('/', function () {
return view('welcome');
});
Route::get('/users/{user}/personal', 'UserController#edit_personal')->name('users.personal');
Route::get('/users/{user}/email', 'UserController#edit_email')->name('users.email');
Route::get('/users/{user}/password', 'UserController#edit_password')->name('users.password');
Route::resource('users', 'UserController');
Basically I have separated edit portion of user controller into personal, email and password sections and they have separate forms. I want to write update functions for each section in UserController.

Answer 1

don't know why are you using separate forms for updating each fields while you can do it in a single form. however you can use either put/patch or post method for updates. here's i am using post for example.
routes:
Route::get('users/{user}/personal', 'UserController#edit_personal')->name('users.personal');
Route::post('users/{user}/personal', 'UserController#update_personal')->name('users.update-personal');
Route::get('users/{user}/email', 'UserController#edit_email')->name('users.email');
Route::post('users/{user}/email', 'UserController#update_email')->name('users.update-email');
Route::get('users/{user}/password', 'UserController#edit_password')->name('users.password');
Route::post('users/{user}/password', 'UserController#update_password')->name('users.update-password');
as you are using route model binding you can directly get the object.
public function edit_personal(User $user)
{
return view('users.edit.personal', ['users' => $user]);
}
public function update_personal(Request $request, User $user)
{
//validation goes here
$user->update([
'value' => $request->value,
...........
]);
}