use App\Http\Controllers\CameraController;

Route::resource('cameras', CameraController::class);

But what if we didn’t want to utilize the resource route creation technique for all of our routes, but we wanted to utilize its elegance for some of the routes? That concept exists. Do we haver to use that concept? Of course not. We could simply list out all of our routes.

use App\Http\Controllers\CameraController;

Route::prefix('/camera')->group(function() {
    Route::get('/',          [CameraController::class, 'index']);
    Route::get('/create',    [CameraController::class, 'create']);
    Route::post('/',         [CameraController::class, 'store']);
    Route::get('/{id}',      [CameraController::class, 'show']);
    Route::get('/{id}/edit', [CameraController::class, 'edit']);
    Route::put('/{id}',      [CameraController::class, 'update']);
    Route::delete('/{id}',   [CameraController::class, 'destroy']);
});

So how do we utilize the resource controller for only some of the routes? There are two different ways:

• only
• except

The only method

When we want to utilize the resource controller for only a couple of resources, we can chain on the only method to our resource route and specify which routes we want to apply the resource routes for.

Route::resource('cameras', CameraController::class)->only([
    'index', 'show'
]);

We can then specify the other routes however we want. If we only had those two to begin with (i.e. we didn’t allow insertions, edits, nor deletions), this would generate those routes and not the other ones.

The except method

When we want to utilize the resource routes for the majority of the routes, we could utilize the except method to exclude the routes that we don’t want Laravel to generate. For example, let’s say that we don’t allow deletions, but we do want routes for everything else.

Route::resource('cameras', CameraController::class)->except([
    'destroy'
]);

This line generates all of the routes for us except the route for destroy.

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