Is there any way to use one route with two controller in Laravel?

Question

I want one route with two controllers. However, I can't implement it. I have ExpenseController and IncomeController and my route looks like this:

Route::get('/api/expense/', 'ExpenseController@index');
Route::post('/api/expense', 'ExpenseController@create');

And I want to add the same route with IncomeController

Route::get('/api/expense', 'IncomeController@index');
Route::post('/api/expense', 'IncomeController@create');

No. One route, one controller, because how will it know which one it will go to? You can probably create a sort of intermediate controller to reroute it depending on what's being submitted. — aynber, Aug 29 '19 at 17:30
HTTP method does not provide the needed context? Think @aynber's suggestion makes sense. `$controller->callAction()`... FWIW: https://laravel.io/forum/05-29-2015-one-route-to-many-controllers — ficuscr, Aug 29 '19 at 17:33
Possible duplicate of [(Laravel) How to use 2 controllers in 1 route?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26091998/laravel-how-to-use-2-controllers-in-1-route) — ficuscr, Aug 29 '19 at 17:35
Please provide details regarding why you feel that you need more than one controller for a route. You almost certainly need to do something differently as this is not how controllers should be used. — Alex Barker, Aug 29 '19 at 19:12
@AlexBarker i want to use `Expense` and `Income` in the same page — latenight, Aug 30 '19 at 10:32
You say 'page' and want a 'create' function, which leads me to believe you actually want normal web routes instead of an API. Can I rephrase your question to "How do I list both Expense and Income records one the same page, and how do I create them with a single form?" — JorisJ1, Aug 30 '19 at 15:31

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 01 '19 at 08:55

No, It is not possible to directly link one route to two controllers.

However, in the comment section is determined that there is no actual need for one route to link to multiple controllers, but rather a single controller that controls multiple models.

You could create a single controller BudgetController that controls both incomes and expenses. Here is an example for showing a list of both on the same page:

routes/web.php

Route::resource('budget', 'BudgetController');

app/Http/Controllers/BudgetController.php

public function index() 
{
    return view('budget.index', [
        'incomes' => Income::all(),
        'expenses' => Expense::all(),
    ])
}

resources/views/budget/index.php

<table>
    @foreach($incomes as $income)
        <tr><td>{{ $income->amount }}</td></tr>
    @endforeach
</table>

<table>
    @foreach($expenses as $expense)
        <tr><td>{{ $expense->amount }}</td></tr>
    @endforeach
</table>

Looking at your other questions I realise you are probably using Vue, making my answer useless. Is this correct? If so, I will delete this answer. — JorisJ1, Sep 01 '19 at 10:48

Is there any way to use one route with two controller in Laravel?

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