Two controllers one route laravel - laravel

Question

I can currently show the index page along with a list of posts. The user can select a post to view post details. For this I have:
Routes:
Route::get('/', 'PostsController#showPosts');
Route::get('post/{slug}', 'PostsController#showPostDetails');
Controller:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\Post;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class PostsController extends Controller
{
public function showPosts()
{
$posts = Post::simplePaginate(2);
return view('index', ['posts' => $posts]);
}
public function showPostDetails($slug)
{
$post = Post::findBySlug($slug);
return view('post.show',['post'=>$post]);
}
}
Model:
public static function findBySlug($slug)
{
return static::where('slug', $slug)->first();
}
index
#extends('layouts.index')
#section('header')
<!-- Page Header -->
<header class="masthead" style="background-image: url('img/home-bg.jpg')">
<div class="overlay"></div>
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-8 col-md-10 mx-auto">
<div class="site-heading">
<h1>Train Testing</h1>
<span class="subheading">Testing Times</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</header>
#stop
#section('content')
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-8 col-md-10 mx-auto">
#foreach ($posts as $post)
#include('partials.post', ['post' => $post])
#endforeach
{{ $posts->links() }}
</div>
</div>
#stop
partials/post.blade.php
<div class="post-preview">
<a href="/post/{{ $post->slug }}">
<h2 class="post-title">
{{ $post->title }}
</h2>
<h3 class="post-subtitle">
{{ $post->excerpt }}
</h3>
</a>
<p class="post-meta">Posted by
{{ $post->author->name }}
on {{ $post->created_at->format('l d F, Y') }}</p>
</div>
<hr>
I now want to show the posts on all other pages. My other pages currently have the route Route::get('{slug}', 'PagesController#show'); And it makes sense initially to refer back to existing code so use Route::get('{slug}', 'PostsController#showPosts'); like I did on the home page to display posts there.
However I am not sure of the best way to deal with this as I believe you can not have two controllers for one route.
For other pages I currently have:
Controller:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\Page;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class PagesController extends Controller
{
public function show($slug)
{
$page = Page::findBySlug($slug);
return view('page', ['page' => $page]);
}
}
page.blade:
#extends('layouts.index')
#section('header')
<!-- Page Header -->
<header class="masthead" style="background-image: url('/storage/{{ $page->image }}')">
<div class="overlay"></div>
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-8 col-md-10 mx-auto">
<div class="page-heading"> <h1>{!! $page->title !!}</h1>
<span class="subheading"></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</header>
#stop
#section('content')
<!-- Main Content -->
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-8 col-md-10 mx-auto">
{!! $page->body !!}
</div>
</div>
</div>
#stop

Answer 1

Pages Controller:
use App\Page;
use App\Post;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class PagesController extends Controller
{
public function show($slug)
{
$posts = Post::simplePaginate(2);
$page = Page::findBySlug($slug);
return view('page', ['page' => $page, 'posts' => $posts]);
}
Then in page.blade.php I can call $posts without any errors:
#foreach ($posts as $post)
#include('partials.post', ['post' => $post])
#endforeach
{{ $posts->links() }}
Not sure if this is the neatest way but it works.