Laravel Different Route Same Controller

Question

I'm building an API for user and admin.

Got stuck at edit user profile routing.

on admin route i use Route::resource('user', 'UserController')

on user route i use Route::get('profile', 'UserController@show')

At the show method Laravel default has

public function show($id)
{

}

the different between them is on admin I can use /id but on user i check their token from middleware and merge the request to get their user_id so there is no need for the API to use profile/{id} .

The question is how can I use the same method but there is an argument to fill and the route still /profile ?

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One of my solution is :

public function show($id){
    if ($request->has('user_id')):
        $id = $request->query('user_id');
    endif;
}

It working but when i read the code, it's really redundant always checking it and replace the id.

Answer 1

Just place the request object as a parameter in your controller and get the input from the request object when you use your user route.

Thanks