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I'm new to Laravel world (using 5.0) and I'm learning how to route.
I have this route
Route::get('users/{id}', 'UserController#showProfile');
and the UserController
public function showProfile($id)
{
return view('user.profile', ['user' => User::findOrFail($id)]);
}
everything works fine and the generated url is e.g. localhost:8000/users/1.
It is possible to mask this route, having instead something like localhost:8000/users/profile, making the query under the hood?
Thank you all

The simplest thing to do would be to simply pull in the authenticated user:
Route::get('users/profile', 'UserController#showProfile');
public function showProfile()
{
return view('user.profile', ['user' => Auth::user()]);
}

You can check the $id type.
public function showProfile($id) {
if(is_numeric($id)) {
return view('user.profile', ['user' => User::findOrFail($id)]);
} else {
// Profile page.
return view('user.profile_page');
}
}