What are Laravel basic routing and available router methods?
What are router methods in Laravel?
Router methods enable the application to respond to any HTTP request method like the PUT PATCH DELETE.
Router
The router method comes in handy. HTTP methods such as POST and GET are the most familiar once we know for basic form submission. We see methods such as PUT when we deal with API.
Syntax
Route::get($uri, $callback);
Route::post($uri, $callback);
Route::put($uri, $callback);
Route::patch($uri, $callback);
Route::delete($uri, $callback);
Route::options($uri, $callback);
The any() method
When we build applications, sometimes we want to respond or catch HTTP requests sent to that route.
Laravel provides a fluent way to respond to any HTTP request using the any() method like this:
Route::any('/', function () {
//
});
The method above will respond to any HTTP request directed to that uri.
We might want to filter the HTTP method that we wish to respond to, so we use the match() method.
Route::match(['get', 'post'], '/', function () {
//
});
Thus, we specify the HTTP method we want to respond to.
Summary
The route method is used to catch specific HTTP requests to our application where we don’t want to limit our application to just the GET and POST methods.
