I'm an absolute beginner in Laravel 5.

I've created a middleware class called BeforeMiddleware the blueprint of that class is below.

class BeforeMiddleware { public function handle($request, Closure $next, $role) { if($request->user()->hasRole($role)){ return redirect('/pensions'); } return $next($request); } } registered in kernel.php as

protected $routeMiddleware = [ 'auth' => 'App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate', 'auth.basic' => 'Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\AuthenticateWithBasicAuth', 'guest' => 'App\Http\Middleware\RedirectIfAuthenticated', 'role' => 'App\Http\Middleware\BeforeMiddleware', ]; User model is below

class User extends Model { public function hasRole($name) { return ($this->role->name == $name) ? true : false; }

public function role()
{
    return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\Role');
}

} and usage in routes.php is below.

Route:get('/reporting', [ 'middleware' => 'role:Owner', 'uses' => function(){ return 'secret data only be viewable by the owners'; }]); If I open that in the browser /reporting I get the following error.

ReflectionException in Container.php line 776: Class role:Owner does not exist HOWEVER if I hard code 'Owner' in middleware and remove the $role parameter and also removed it from routes which now looks like this.

BeforeMiddleware.php

class BeforeMiddleware { public function handle($request, Closure $next, $role) { if($request->user()->hasRole($role)){ return redirect('/pensions'); } return $next($request); } } routes.php

Route:get('/reporting', [ 'middleware' => 'role', 'uses' => function(){ return 'secret data only be viewable by the owners'; }]); it works as desired...

therefore my question is how to pass that parameter when using middleware to control routes

Any Idea?