How to get route parameters in Laravel Global Middleware?

Question

I have global middleware and i need to get parameters from the routes defined in routes.php. My $request->route() is NULL

Answer 1

You can't. The route has not been matched yet. Route parameters are only available in route middleware.

Think about it: it doesn't make much sense for a global middleware to have access to the route's parameters, since every route has different parameters.

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You can however get the URI segments:

$id = $request->segment(2);

Pass it the number (1 based index) of the segment you want.