Laravel 5 getting ID from URL

Question

I have a table view in which I can click an button icon and redirect to another page carrying the id of the row that has been clicked.

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Answer 1

Please refer to the answered question for how to get a parameter from a route. But if you stumbled on this old Laravel thread looking for how to retrieve a model by its ID, the simplest way is to instantiate the model in the controller's request parameter:

Route::get('/retrieve_product/{product}', 'SearchController@getProduct');

Then over in your controller, you simply need:

use App\Product;

class SearchController extends Controller
{
    public function getProduct( Product $product ) {
        return $product;
    }
}

That's it. No find, no where, no get, no first etc.

So, in this example, if you visit /retrieve_product/1 the first product is returned to you.