Laravel Middleware getting error 'Too few arguments to function'

Question

I'm trying to make an onboarding section for my website. But while trying to implement my middleware I get the following error.

I`m trying to do my onboarding process by assigning a different onboarding value each time the user completes a section of the onboarding process. Such that they start the process with an onboarded value of 0 and once all steps are completed there onboarded value will be 4. Below you can see my current middleware and web.php attempts.

Middleware:

class OnBoarding
{
    public function handle(Request $request, Closure $next, User $user)
    {
        if (! Auth::check()) {
            return redirect()->route('login');
        }
        return $next($request);
        if (Auth::user()->onboarded == 0) {
            return redirect()->route('employment.index', $user);
        }
        return $next($request);
        if (Auth::user()->onboarded == 1) {
            return redirect()->route('qualificationsAndCertifications.index', $user);
        }
        return $next($request);
        if (Auth::user()->onboarded == 2) {
            return redirect()->route('extraDocs.index', $user);
        }
        return $next($request);
        if (Auth::user()->onboarded == 3) {
            return redirect()->route('additionalInformation.index', $user);
        }
        return $next($request);
        if (Auth::user()->onboarded == 4) {
            return redirect()->route('dashboard.index');
        }
        return $next($request);

    }
}

Web.php:

Route::middleware('auth','verified','onboarded')->group(function () {

    Route::get('/onboarding/employment/{user}', [UserController::class , 'employment'])- >name('employment.index');

    Route::get('/onboarding/additional-information/{user}', [UserController::class , 'additionalInformation'])->name('additionalInformation.index');

    Route::get('/onboarding/certification/{user}', [UserController::class , 'qualificationsAndCertifications'])
    ->name('qualificationsAndCertifications.index');

    Route::get('/onboarding/certification/extra/{user}', [UserController::class , 'extraDocs'])->name('extraDocs.index');

Not sure what I'm doing wrong but this is my first time touching middleware in PHP so assume I'm making a really stupid mistake and therefore any help would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

Why ara so many return $next($request); on handle

// For a route with the following URI: profile/{id}

return redirect()->route('profile', ['id' => 1]);

https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/redirects#redirecting-named-routes