Optional parameter for Laravel routing

Question

I want to make a route for these two urls:

http://localhost/myweb/public/compare
http://localhost/myweb/public/compare/fb

Here is the route I wrote:

Route::get('compare/{fb?}', 'compareController@index');

It doesn't work as expected. Because it also works for this:

http://localhost/myweb/public/compare/anythingElse

Although I want to dedicate it to just these two urls. How can i do this?

+3

stack Apr 19 17 at 5:29

1 answer

stack · Answer 1 · 2017-04-19T05:34:33+0000

All I have to do is use the method where()

. Something like that:

Route::get('compare/{fb?}', 'compareController@index')->where('fb', 'fb');

->where('fb', 'fb')

restricts this optional parameter to fb

literal only .