Laravel 4 how check if a route only comes/redirected from another route?

laravel, laravel-4, laravel-routing

Solution

You'll need to grab the referer and check if it is contains 'admin'. Try the following

$referer = Request::referer();
// or
// $referer = Request::server('HTTP_REFERER');

if (strpos($referer,'admin') !== false) {
    dd('coming from admin')
}

Edit #1: As pointed out by @tomvo you can also use `URL::previous()` instead of `Request::referer()` in L4

Edit #2: It's actually mispelled as `referer` instead of `referrer` as point out by @JamesF

Edit #3: In Laravel 5 the `Request::referer()` method doesn't seem to exist anymore, you can still get it by using `Request::header('referer')` as point out by @TheSerenin

Problem

Say i have `localhost/public/admin` that redirects immediately to `localhost/public/user/login`. How am I going to get the `admin` value in `user/login`?

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