This will be obvious to someone else
I have a route that works and goes to the correct controller
Route::get('v1/holidays/{country}/{year}/{month}/{official?}',
'retrieveHolidayController@test'
so if i go to http://example.com/v1/holidays/US/2014/03/01
it will go where I want to go
however I want the link to look like
http://example.com/v1/holidays?country=US&year=2014&month=03&official=01
How can I do this please ?
You redefine your route to
Route::get('v1/holidays', 'retrieveHolidayController@test');
Then in your controller you can get the param values with $request
public function test(Request $request)
{
if ( $request->has('country') && $request->country != '') {
$country = $request->country;
}
if ( $request->has('year') && $request->year != '') {
$year = $request->year;
}
.... // and the others. Then you can query like this
$holidays = Holiday::when($country, function($query) use ($country) {
return $query->where('country', $country);
})
->when($year, function($query) use ($year) {
return $query->where('year', $year);
})
->get();
//Using 'when' only executes the closure if the variable exists
}
Now, you can use your URL just the way you wanted:
http://example.com/v1/holidays?country=US&year=2014&month=03&official=01
Make country,year and monthalso optional:-
Route::get('v1/holidays/{country?}/{year?}/{month?}/{official?}', 'retrieveHolidayController@test')
Route::get('v1/holidays', 'retrieveHolidayController@test');
Route::get('v1/holidays/{country}/{year}/{month}/{official?}', function($country){
return redirect()->to(action('retrieveHolidayController@test', ["country"=>$country,......]));
});
access to http://example.com/v1/holidays/US/2014/03/01
redirect to http://example.com/v1/holidays?country=US&year=2014&month=03&offical=01
if official param is null redirect param offical= param is nullable
not feel good so
isset($official){
$paramArry["official"] = $official;
}
