Laravel 5 Entrust one route - load different controller based on Role

Question

So I\'m just starting to learn Laravel and I\'ve implemented the Entrust Role Permission package, which works really well. Now my question is, I\'d like to have a \'Dashboar

Answer 1

Something like this should work for you.

routes.php

Route::get('/dashboard', ['as'=>'dashboard', 'uses'=> 'DashboardController@dashboard']);

DashboardController.php

use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

use App\User;
use App\Admin;

class DashboardController extends Controller {
    public function dashboard(){
        if ($this->auth->user()->hasRole('admin') )
        {
            return $this->showAdminDashboard();
        }
        elseif ($this->auth->user()->hasRole('user') )
        {
            return $this->showUserDashboard();
        }
        else {
            abort(403);
        }
    }

    private function showUserDashboard()
    {
        return view('dashboard.user');
    }

    private function showAdminDashboard()
    {
        return view('dashboard.admin');
    }
}

Edits per comment

It sounds like something like this approach might be what you are looking for.

<?php

$uses = 'PagesController@notfound';
if( $this->auth->user()->hasRole('admin') )
{
    $uses = 'AdminController@index';
}
elseif ($this->auth->user()->hasRole('user') )
{
    $uses = 'UsersController@index';
}


Route::get('/dashboard', array(
     'as'=>'home'
    ,'uses'=> $uses
));

That said, I feel like having a DashboardController works better. I find when using a dashboard, I pull from a variety of models for the opening page to get statistics about the site. I would use the DashboardController only for this general information. From the Dashboard, I would like to other pages that have the specific items you want to view/edit. This way if the admins need to access view/edit the same information as the users, you do not need to rewrite code. You can just update the security on that particular controller to allow for both groups.