They are two completely different subjects.

Routes, take a url and map it to some functionality (a controller).

Requests are the data sent along with a request to a url.

So what is the difference here ?

if (Request::is('admin/*'))
{
    //
}

Route::filter('admin', function()
{
    //
});

Route::when('admin/*', 'admin');

Think of

if (Request::is('admin/*'))
{
    //
}

as

if ( << Route where the request landed >>  ::is('admin/*'))
{
    //
}

Does it make more sense?? ;)

ughhh :)

thx guys, but hahaha, not really.

i can check current route , so i dont really need to check request.

its making the same in 2 different ways ?