Ability to add multiple fallback routes

[indykoning]

Laravel has a way to add fallback routes to the router.
Which works great as a catch all, so code can determine wether the route matches something.
(e.g. a redirect table, dynamic routes/pages)

Now say you've installed something like Statamic which works using a fallback route.
And you want to use a fallback route in your own project as well.
One of the two will never get fired, while the other causes a 404 to occur.

My idea is to use the Route::isFallback to try the next route in case a route with isFallback === true returns a 404.

This way you can still use a fallback route without losing the ability to use packages like Statamic.

If people agree i am willing to create a PR to enable this feature.

[shaedrich]

framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php

Lines 242 to 249 in 5527e72

	public function fallback($action)
	{
	$placeholder = 'fallbackPlaceholder';
	return $this->addRoute(
	'GET', "{{$placeholder}}", $action
	)->where($placeholder, '.*')->fallback();
	}

$placeholder could be a random value instead of a fixed one 🤔

[indykoning]

It could be, unfortunately due to the catch all nature of this route (which makes sense) any further fallbacks will not be executed if this returns a 404.

I've already made a fallback controller with capability to run multiple fallback routes
https://github.com/rapidez/core/pull/166/files
https://github.com/rapidez/core/pull/617/files

But this depends on packages allowing you to disable their fallback routes, and adding them as a fallback route to that controller.
So it's not an ideal solution.
Some light modification to Laravels router would make it possible out of the box