Alias for a route with a fixed parameter value

Question

I have this route:

Route::get('/MyModel/{id}', 'MyController@show');

The method show() accepts a parameter called id and I want to setup an alias for /MyModel/1 so it's accesible from /MyCustomURL.

I already tried a few combinations, like:

Route::get('/MyCustomURL', ['uses' => 'MyController@show', 'id' => 1]);

But I keep getting missing required argument error for method show().

Is there a clean way to achieve this in Laravel?

Answer 1

In Laravel 5.4 (or maybe earlier) you can use defaults function in your routes file.

Here is example:

Route::get('/alias', 'MyController@show')->defaults('id', 1);

In this case you don't need to add additional method in your controller.

Answer 2

In same controller (in your case MyController ?) you should create one new method:

public function showAliased()
{
   return $this->show(1);
}

and now you can define your aliased route like so:

Route::get('/MyCustomURL', 'MyController@showAliased');

Answer 3

define your route like this: you can use "as" to give your route any name that you need.

Route::get('/MyModel/{id}' , [
        'as'=>'Camilo.model.show',
        'uses' => 'MyController@show' ,
    ]) ;

now if you want to access this route, you can generate url for it, based on its name like this:

route('Camilo.model.show', ['id' =>1]) ;