Laravel: capture everything after '/' in a route

Question

I have a route that looks like this:

Route::namespace('Api\HelpGuides')->prefix('help')->group(function () {
    Route::get('/{userInput}', 'FetchArticlesController')
    ->where('userInput', '.*');
});

And the controller that looks like this:

    public function __invoke(Request $request, string $userInput) ...

I want to be able to capture the $userInput so if I receive a request from the front-end that is like:

/api/help/anything/could/be/in/here?including=params

That I can consume in the FetchArticlesController.

When I dump out $userInput in my controller, I am given everything up to the query string, so in the above example, it dumps out

/anything/could/be/in/here

Is there a way I can make it dump out everything after my defined route? e.g. ANYTHING after /api/help/ ? I would ideally like that $userInput string to look like:

/anything/could/be/in/here?including=params

Answer 1

If you want to capture anything:

Route::pattern('anything', '.*');

Route::namespace('Api\HelpGuides')->prefix('help')->group(function () {
    Route::get('/{anything}', 'FetchArticlesController');
});

The $anything argument in your controller method will be... anything, including /.