How to get the subdomain in a subdomain-route in laravel

Question

I'm building an application where a subdomain points to a user. How can I get the subdomain-part of the address elsewhere than in a route?

Route::group(array('domain' => '{subdomain}.project.dev'), function() {

    Route::get('foo', function($subdomain) {
        // Here I can access $subdomain
    });

    // How can I get $subdomain here?

});

I've built a messy work-around, though:

Route::bind('subdomain', function($subdomain) {

    // Use IoC to store the variable for use anywhere
    App::bindIf('subdomain', function($app) use($subdomain) {
        return $subdomain;
    });

    // We are technically replacing the subdomain-variable
    // However, we don't need to change it
    return $subdomain;

});

The reason I want to use the variable outside a route is to establish a database-connection based on that variable.

Answer 1

Hello,

$subdomain is injected in the actual Route callback, it is undefined inside the group closure because the Request has not been parsed yet.

If want you want is to have it available everywhere ONCE the Request has been parsed, you could setup an after filter to store the $subdomain value:

Config::set('request.subdomain', Route::getCurrentRoute()->getParameter('subdomain'));

Hope it helps!!