Route Groups

Route Groups

Groups apply a shared concern — a path prefix, a domain, a port or a client-IP restriction — to every route registered inside a callback. The callback receives the router.

Groups can be nested, and nested prefixes/name-prefixes accumulate.

Prefix groups — group()

$router->group('/admin', function (Router $route) {
    $route->get('/', 'AdminController@dashboard');  // /admin/
    $route->get('/users', 'AdminController@users'); // /admin/users
});

Nested groups combine their prefixes:

$router->group('/admin', function (Router $route) {
    $route->group('/posts', function (Router $route) {
        $route->get('/', 'PostController@index');         // /admin/posts/
        $route->delete('/{id}', 'PostController@delete'); // /admin/posts/{id}
    });
});

Pass an as option to prefix the names of routes in the group (see Named Routes & URLs):

$router->group('/admin', function (Router $route) {
    $route->get('/login', 'AdminController@login')->name('login'); // name: admin.login
}, ['as' => 'admin.']);

Domain groups — domain()

Match routes against a host, including host parameters:

$router->domain('{slug}.example.com', function (Router $route) {
    $route->get('/', 'TenantController@home');
});

A request to https://acme.example.com/ matches and captures acme.

Port groups — port()

Restrict routes to a specific port:

$router->port(9000, function (Router $route) {
    $route->get('/metrics', 'MetricsController@index');
});

Client-IP groups — ip()

Only match for requests coming from one or more client IP addresses:

$router->ip('127.0.0.1', function (Router $route) {
    $route->get('/debug', 'DebugController@index');
});

$router->ip(['10.0.0.1', '10.0.0.2'], function (Router $route) {
    $route->get('/internal', 'InternalController@index');
});

Requests from any other address simply do not match these routes, so they fall through to a 404 unless another route matches. An invalid IP address throws InvalidArgumentException. See Upgrading 1.x → 2.0 for how the client IP is detected.

Combining groups

Groups nest freely and combine with all the other options:

$router->domain('{tenant}.example.com', function (Router $route) {
    $route->group('/api', function (Router $route) {
        $route->get('/users', 'Api\UserController@index'); // {tenant}.example.com/api/users
    }, ['as' => 'api.']);
});

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