Laravel filters in route or controllers?

Question

Is there a best practice for where to put the filters? I want to put filter on each action for a resource (eg: user), which can look overwhelming if I put them all in routes.php , but most people do it. If I apply the filters in the controllers, I want to do that for everything else too so other people always know where to look.

How do you organize your filters?

Answer 1

It really doesn't matter where you put your filters (either in routes or controllers). But basically, it would be easy and understandable if you will rule your routes .

Answer 2

'best practice' is probably just doing it in the routes, solely because that is where most people will go looking for them.

If you want to put a filter more than one route, then then a neat way to do that is to put those routes in a Route::group .

Route::group(['before' => 'auth.whatifs'], function(){
 Route::get('user', ['uses' => 'UserController@function', 'as' => 'user.function']);
 " Another route "
 " Yet another route "
});