Laravel 5.0 masking routes

Question

I'm new to Laravel world (using 5.0) and I'm learning how to route. I have this route

Route::get('users/{id}', 'UserController@showProfile');

and the UserController

public function showProfile($id)
    {
         return view('user.profile', ['user' => User::findOrFail($id)]);
    }

everything works fine and the generated url is e.g. localhost:8000/users/1.

It is possible to mask this route, having instead something like localhost:8000/users/profile, making the query under the hood? Thank you all

Answer 1

The simplest thing to do would be to simply pull in the authenticated user:

Route::get('users/profile', 'UserController@showProfile');



public function showProfile()
{
    return view('user.profile', ['user' => Auth::user()]);
}