How to make instant redirection in Laravel

Question

I want to make an instant redirection in my controller in Laravel.

I know I can use

public function show($page) 
{   
   return Redirect::url(\'http://ex         


        

Answer 1

After a while of digging it seems that for this purposes you should use send() method from Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation (Laravel RedirectResponse inherits from this class).

So you can modify checkPages method this way:

public function checkPages($page, $totalPages, $url) 
{
  if ($page < 2 or $page > $totalPages)  {
     Redirect::url($url)->send();
  }    
}

and it will make instant redirection.