Controller Middleware
Middleware can be assigned to the controllers routes in our route
files:
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Route::get(‘profile’, ‘UserController@show’) ->middleware(‘auth’); |
It is more convenient to specify middleware within our
controllers constructor. Using the middleware method from our controllers constructor, we can easily
assign middleware to the controllers action.
We even restrict the middleware to only certain methods on the controller class:
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class UserController extends Controller { /** * Instantiate a new controller instance. * * @return void */ public function __construct() { $this->middleware('auth'); $this->middleware('log')->only('index'); $this->middleware('subscribed')->except('store'); } } |
Controllers allow us to register middleware using a closure. It provides a convenient way to define a middleware for a single controller without defining an entire middleware class:
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$this->middleware(function ($request, $next) { // ………. return $next($request); }); |
We assign middleware to a subset of controller actions; however, it indicates our controller is growing too large. Consider breaking our controller into multiple, smaller controllers.