laravel form post issue

Question

I am building a practice app with the Laravel framework I built a form in one of the views which is set to post to the same view itself but when I hit

Answer 1

Well, you just return the view, so nothing change. You should bind your route to a controller to do some logic and add data to your view, like this:

index.blade.php

@extends('master')

@section('container')


     @if (isset($message))
     
{{$message}}
     @endif

    {{ Form::open(array('url' => '/', 'method' => 'post')) }}
        {{ Form::text('url') }}
        {{ Form::text('valid') }}
        {{ Form::submit('shorten') }}
    {{ Form::close() }}



@stop

Your routes

Routes::any('/', 'home@index');

You controller HomeController.php

public function index()
{
     $data = array();
     $url = Input::get('url');
     if ($url)
          $data['message'] = "foo";

     return View::make('index', $data);
}

You can also modify your current routes without using a controller like this (use the new view file)

Route::get('/', function()
{
     return View::make('index'); 
});

Route::post('/', function() 
{
     return View::make('index')->with('message', 'Foo');          
});