I have a user login system that consists of two steps:
credentials
- so now we have AD login name, "nice" name (first last), selected team ID, etc.. no passwords because user has authenticated.userTeams
pivot table.Right now, I have this route:
// This group forces user to be logged in; auth() will check if user has selected a team and ensures the team exists.
Route::group(array('before' => 'auth'), function() {
// Handle team - URL will be /dashboard -- Team controller based on view_name from `teamUsers` table
$teamUser = php_sapi_name() == "cli" ? null : @TeamUser::find(Session::get('credentials.team'));
if(!empty($teamUser)) {
$team = ucfirst(strtolower($teamUser->teams()->first()->view_name));
Route::controller('dashboard', 'Team'.$team.'Controller');
}
// Handle index
Route::controller('/', 'IndexController');
});
However, I don't feel this is a very elegant solution - mostly because I cannot do reverse routing doing this method.
Any tips or suggestions?
I would personally choose to do this logic in it's own filter rather than the Route Group closure, since what you are doing is simply 'filtering' users to different routes depending on variables (same thing an Auth filter does).
update
Route::filter('whatever', function()
{
$teamUser = php_sapi_name() == "cli" ? null : @TeamUser::find(Session::get('credentials.team'));
if ( empty($teamUser) )
Redirect::route('IndexController');
});
Route::group(array('before' => 'auth|whatever', function()
{
Route::controller('someController');
Route::controller('/', 'IndexController');
}));