HOW TO USE SUBDOMAIN IN ROUTES IN LARAVEL

php artisan migrate:make create_names_table

<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
class CreateNamesTable extends Migration {
/**
* Run the migrations.
*
* @return void
*/
public function up()
{
Schema::create('users', function($table)
{
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('name');
$table->string('full_name');
$table->timestamps();
});
}
/**
* Reverse the migrations.
*
* @return void
*/
public function down()
{
Schema::drop('name');
}
}

• Back in the command line, create another migration to add some test data:

  php artisan migrate:make add_names_data

• Open the add_names_data file in the migrations directory:

  <?php
  use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
  class AddNamesData extends Migration {
  /**
  * Run the migrations.
  *
  * @return void
  */
  public function up()
  {
  $names = array(
  array(
  'name' => 'bob',
  'full_name' => 'Bob Smith'
  ),
  array(
  'name' => 'carol',
  'full_name' => 'Carol Smith'
  ),
  array(
  'name' => 'Deven',
  'full_name' => 'Deven rathore'
  )
  );
  DB::table('name')->insert($names);
  }
  /**
  * Reverse the migrations.
  *
  * @return void
  */
  public function down()
  {
  DB::table('name')->delete();
  }
  }

   

  Open up Apache’s httpd.conf file and add a virtual host to it as follows

   

  In the command line, run the migration as follows:

  php artisan migrate

   

  How it works…

  To start off, we need to update our DNS and our server. In our DNS, we create a wildcard subdomain and create a virtual host in our Apache configuration. This makes sure that any subdomains used will go to our main application.

  For our default route, we use the parse_url function of PHP to get the domain name, explode it into an array, and use only the first element. We can then query the database using the subdomain and create a customized experience for the user.

  This tutorial allows for a single route to process the subdomains, but if we would like to use more routes with a subdomain, we could use a route group similar to the following:

  Route::group(array('domain' => '{subdomain}.myapp.com'), function()
  {
  Route::get('/', function($subdomain)
  {
  $name = DB::table('name')->where('name', $subdomain)->get();
  dd($name);
  });
  });

   

  • Create a route to get information from the names table based on the subdomain:

    Route::get('/', function()
    {
    $url = parse_url(URL::all());
    $host = explode('.', $url['host']);
    $subdomain = $host[0];
    $name = DB::table('name')->where('name',$subdomain)->get();
    dd($name);
    });

  • In the browser, visit our domain with a relevant subdomain such as .