I have to setup my authentication for my reservations system in Laravel.

The basic routing methods by Laravel and a lot of tutorials is by writing the function for the route inside the web.php like this Laraval example:

Route::get('/flights', function () {
    // Only authenticated users may access this route...
})->middleware('auth');

However, I was told this isn't the best way to set up routing and that I should use a controller to manage routes. But that means I have to setup authentification methods inside the controller and to be honest, I don't have the vision to do this.. I thought I could do it like this (My Code)

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Providers\RouteServiceProvider;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;

class PagesController extends Controller
{
    public function home() {
        return view('home');
    }

    public function reservations() {
        return view('reservations')
        ->middleware(['auth']);
    }

    public function newreservations() {
        return view('reservations_new');
    }

 }

combined with this web.php setup:

Route::get('/reservations.html', [PagesController::class, 'reservations']);

Route::get('/reservations.html/login', [AuthenticatedSessionController::class, 'create']);

Route::post('/reservations.html/login', [AuthenticatedSessionController::class, 'store']);

Route::get('/reservations_new.html', [PagesController::class, 'newReservations']);

but then I got the error: Method Illuminate\View\View::middleware does not exist.

So any tips/tricks/methods to do it the right way?

CodePudding user response：

There is no right or wrong way as long as you follow the same principal.

I personally do this:

Route::middleware('auth')->group(function () {
    // Authenticated routes
});

you can check this extended discussion

also if you want to use middlewares in controller, this is the right way

class UserController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Instantiate a new controller instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware('auth');
        $this->middleware('log')->only('index');
        $this->middleware('subscribed')->except('store');
    }
}

CodePudding user response：

Thanks to PJB I got the right solution

I wanted to implement the middleware module inside my controller but it could simply be done by changing the route to:

Route::get('/reservations', [PagesController::class, 'reservations'])->middleware('auth');