I’m learning Laravel on an existing 11.29.0 project.

I have two routes defined:

//api.php

Route::get('/items/approved', [ItemController::class, 'approved']);

Route::get('/items/{id}', [ItemController::class, 'show']);

In my controller I have this:

//ItemController.php

namespace AppHttpControllers;
use IlluminateHttpResourcesJsonAnonymousResourceCollection;
use AppHttpResourcesItemResource;

class ItemController extends Controller{

  //MARK: Approved
  public function approved(): AnonymousResourceCollection
  {
    error_log('inside approved');

    //...
  }

  //MARK: Show
  public function show($id): ItemResource|JsonResponse
  {
    error_log('inside show');
    
    //...
  }
}

When I do a GET request to /items/approved it always hits the show($id) function.

Shouldn’t the fact that /items/approved comes before /items/{id} make it so the approved() function is called? What am I missing?