Laravel (5) - Routing to controller with optional parameters

Question

I'd like to create a route that takes a required ID, and optional start and end dates ('Ymd'). If dates are omitted, they fall back to a default. (Say last 30 days) and call a controller....lets say 'path@index'

Route::get('/path/{id}/{start?}/{end?}', function($id, $start=null, $end=null) {     if(!$start)     {         //set start     }     if(!$end)     {         //set end     }      // What is the syntax that goes here to call 'path@index' with $id, $start, and $end? }); 

Any help would be appreciated. I'm sure there is a simple answer, but I couldn't find anything anywhere.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Answer 1

There is no way to call a controller from a Route:::get closure.

Use:

Route::get('/path/{id}/{start?}/{end?}', 'Controller@index'); 

and handle the parameters in the controller function:

public function index($id, $start = null, $end = null) {     if (!$start) {         // set start     }              if (!$end) {         // set end     }              // do other stuff }