Laravel Routes Artisan - laravel

Question

When I run artisan routes in laravel 4
auth/login/{v1}/{v2}/{v3}/{v4}/{v5}
Is this normal or is there something wrong. My routes work just wondering if there might be a bug or something. Below are my routes for auth. I'm using restful routes for auth.
Route::controller('auth','AuthController');
Route::get('AuthController/login', array('as' => 'login', 'uses' => 'AuthController#login'));
Route::get('auth/logout', array('as' => 'logout', 'uses' => 'auth#logout'));
Route::post('auth/login', array('uses' => 'auth#login'));

Answer 1

This is expected. When you register controllers with Route::controller() the controller inspector adds the URI wildcards. Consider the following example:
Route::controller('user', 'UserController');
You might then have a method like this on your UserController:
public function getProfile($username)
{
$user = User::where('username', $username)->first();
return View::make('profile')->with('user', $user);
}
You could then hit that method by going to localhost/yourapp/user/profile/jason
In a nut shell it allows you to pass extra parameters to a method. To me this is a very old school way of doing it, as it looks nicer like localhost/yourapp/user/jason/profile and in this case you'd need to use a route to map to the controller method.

Answer 2

I suggest you 2 improvements:
1 - keep a standard with URIs
You don't need Route::controller in this case. In order to mantain all routes with the same structure I would do:
Route::group( array('prefix'=>'auth,function(){ //make all auth routes starting by auth
Route::get('getLogin', array('as' => 'getLogin', 'uses' => 'AuthController#getLogin'));
Route::get('getLogin', array('as' => 'logout', 'uses' => 'AuthController#logout'));
Route::post('postLogin', array('as' => 'postLogin', 'uses' => 'AuthController#postLogin'));
});
It is not necessary to use group but if you app grows could be better. Without group code will be:
Route::get('auth/getLogin', array('as' => 'getLogin', 'uses' => 'AuthController#getLogin'));
Route::get('auth/getLogin', array('as' => 'logout', 'uses' => 'AuthController#logout'));
Route::post('auth/postLogin', array('as' => 'postLogin', 'uses' => 'AuthController#postLogin'));
2 - Protect your post routes
For every post and put request we've to prevent CSRF attacks like this:
Route::post('postLogin',array('before' => 'csrf','uses'=>AuthController#postLogin) );