API GET by Email

Hello all,

I'm trying to make a GET request through my API by using 'email' as the parameter instead of 'id'.

So with the default get by 'id' my code is as follows:

Route::get('user/{user}', 'GameController@show');

and in the Controller:

public function show(User $user)
{
    return $user;
}

This works fine, but instead of using the implicit binding for 'id', how would I do this so my endpoint can be

user/{ emailhere } and return the user in the db with said email? Everything I've tried just seems to 404 so far.

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public function show(User $user)
{
    return $user;
}

This by default translates to

public function show( $id)
{
    return User::where ('id', $id);
}

so, if you want to load the user by email, do this:

public function show( $user_email)
{

     return User::where('user_email', $user_email)->firstOrFail();

}

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