In Laravel, when you specify your routes, you can place parameters in the URL. These parameters can also be automatically mapped to Model objects.
For example, you have a root where the path looks like this: /forum/{forumModel}/edit.
If you are writing a Middleware that should check something on the request and you need to access the parameter (forumModel in our case) in the URL, you can just do this:
<?php
class SampleMiddleware {
/* ... */
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
$forumModel = $request->forumModel;
/* Do some stuff... */
return $next($request);
}
}
That’s it, the route parameters are accessible directly from the $request object.