How to make multi-level url structure in Laravel 4?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I am looking to create a URL structure like site.com/mycat/myorg/myexam/mysyllabus and site.com/mycat/myorg/myexam and so on for all params.

Currently I'm passing the params from URL to the function like:

Route::get('{cat}/{org}/{exam}/{syllabus}', 'homeController@myPage');

and my function looks like this:

public function myPage($cat, $org, $exam, $syllabus) {
    $result = myModel::where('syllabus_slug', $syllabus)->first();
    if(empty($result)) { App::abort(404); } 
    else
    return View::make('myPage', $result);
}

I think it would be very resource intensive to check for all url params at every request from the database. Currently i'm only checking the $syllabus param from database but this way any value of $org, $cat can be passed without any error. Ofcourse I can check for all params from database but i think that's not the right way to work with URLs with this awesome framework.

Update: I also want to make cat and org optional.