Laravel routing woes -

i have routing working great:

route::get('/', 'maincontroller@index'); route::get('about', 'maincontroller@about'); route::get('contact', 'maincontroller@contact'); route::get('signup', 'maincontroller@signup'); 

the correct functions in maincontroller.php called expected.

where i'm having trouble in getting following work:

i have new file called apicontroller.php. requests http://eamorr.com/api/getusers should handled getusers() in apicontroller.php.

i tried this:

route::get('api', 'apicontroller@index');   //this works fine... route::any('api/{$function}', function($function){   //but won't work!     return redirect()->route('api/'.$function); }); 

i don't want list every function like:

route::get('api/adduser', 'apicontroller@adduser'); route::get('api/getuser', 'apicontroller@getuser'); route::get('api/getallusers', 'apicontroller@getallusers'); ... 

i'd prefer if /api/* requests directed apicontroller...

if has tips, great...

i started learning laravel yesterday, please go easy on me!

you call controller action this:

route::any('/api/{action}', function($action) {     // call method controller class , return it's response     return app()->make('app\http\controllers\apicontroller')->callaction($action, []); }); 

however suggest implicit controllers @shaddy suggested in answer, because actions such adduser require restricting http verb post, can't approach.

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also, since route path looks you're building api, might want using restful resource controllers.