php - Laravel - Using (:any?) wildcard for ALL routes?

Question

I am having a bit of trouble with the routing.

I'm working on a CMS, and I need two primary routes. /admin and /(:any). The admin controller is used for the route /admin, and the view controller should be used for anything else than /admin. From the view controller, I will then parse the url and show the correct content.

This is what I have:

Route::get(array('admin', 'admin/dashboard'), array('as' => 'admin', 'uses' =>'admin.dashboard@index'));
Route::any('(:any)', 'view@index');

The first route works, but the second one doesn't. I played around with it a little bit, and it seems if I use (:any) without the question mark, it only works if I put something after /. If i do put the question mark there, it doesn't work at all.

I want all of the following routes to go to view@index:

/
/something
/something/something
/something/something/something
/something/something/something/something
...etc...

Is this possible without hardcoding a bunch of (:any?)/(:any?)/(:any?)/(:any?) (which I don't even know works)?

What's the best way to go about this?

Answer 1

Laravel 5

This solution works fine on Laravel 5:

Route::get('/admin', function () {

  // url /admin

});

Route::get('/{any}', function ($any) {

  // any other url, subfolders also

})->where('any', '.*');

---

Lumen 5

This is for Lumen instead:

$app->get('/admin', function () use ($app) {
  //
});

$app->get('/{any:.*}', function ($any) use ($app) {
  //
});