Grouped route for ticket creation with or without parameters outside route resource.

Author: xaviqv

src/Controllers/TicketsController.php

@@ -638,28 +638,28 @@ protected function getCacheList($list)
     }
 
     /**
-     * Show the form for creating a new resource.
+     * Open Ticket creation form with optional parameters pre-setted by URL
      *
      * @return Response
      */
-    public function create()
+    public function create($parameters = null)
     {
-	     $data = $this->create_edit_data();
+  		$data = $this->create_edit_data();
+
+      if (!is_null($parameters)){
+         $data = $this->ticket_URL_parameters($data, $parameters);
+      }
 
-        $data['categories'] = $this->member->findOrFail(auth()->user()->id)->getNewTicketCategories();
+		$data['categories'] = $this->member->findOrFail(auth()->user()->id)->getNewTicketCategories();
 
         return view('panichd::tickets.createedit', $data);
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Open Ticket creation form with one or many parameters pre-setted by URL
-     *
-     * @return Response
+    /*
+     * Process parameter pairs passed by URL and update and return $data array
      */
-    public function create_with_values($parameters)
+    public function ticket_URL_parameters($data, $parameters)
     {
-  		$data = $this->create_edit_data();
-
       // Get URL parameters and replace a_current array with them
       $a_temp = explode('/', $parameters);
       $a_parameters = [];
@@ -676,10 +676,8 @@ public function create_with_values($parameters)
           }
       }
 
-		$data['categories'] = $this->member->findOrFail(auth()->user()->id)->getNewTicketCategories();
-
-        return view('panichd::tickets.createedit', $data);
-    }
+      return $data;
+   }
 
     /*
      * Edit a ticket

src/routes.php

@@ -24,12 +24,16 @@
 	// Hide or show ticket to user
 	Route::get("$main_route_path/hide/{value}/{ticket}", 'PanicHD\PanicHD\Controllers\TicketsController@hide')->name("$main_route.hide");
 
+   // Open Ticket create page with one or more parameters set by URL
+   Route::get("$main_route_path/create/{parameters?}", 'PanicHD\PanicHD\Controllers\TicketsController@create')
+      ->where('parameters', '(.*)')
+      ->name("$main_route.create");
+
     $field_name = last(explode('/', $main_route_path));
     Route::resource($main_route_path, 'PanicHD\PanicHD\Controllers\TicketsController', [
         'names' => [
             'index'   => $main_route.'.index',
             'store'   => $main_route.'.store',
-            'create'  => $main_route.'.create',
             'update'  => $main_route.'.update',
             'show'    => $main_route.'.show',
             'destroy' => $main_route.'.destroy',
@@ -40,11 +44,6 @@
         ],
     ]);
 
-		// Open Ticket create page with one or more parameters set by URL
-    Route::get("$main_route_path/createwithvalues/{parameters}", 'PanicHD\PanicHD\Controllers\TicketsController@create_with_values')
-        ->where('parameters', '(.*)')
-        ->name("$main_route.create-with-values");
-
     // Open Ticket edit page with one or more parameters set by URL
     Route::get("$main_route_path/{id}/editwithvalues/{parameters}", 'PanicHD\PanicHD\Controllers\TicketsController@edit_with_values')
         ->where('parameters', '(.*)')