Laravel overrides named route and takes wrong one

Question

I have this defined in my routes.php file

Route::post(\'gestionAdministrador\', array(\'as\' => \'Loguearse\', \'uses\' => \'AdministradorController@Login         


        

Answer 1

If you have two routes with the exact same URI and same method:

Route::post('gestionAdministrador', array('as' => 'Loguearse', 'uses' => 'AdministradorController@Login'));

Route::post('gestionAdministrador', array('as' => 'RegistrarAdministrador', 'uses' => 'AdministradorController@RegistrarAdministrador'));

How can Laravel know the difference between them when something hit /gestionAdministrador?

It will always assume the first one.

The name you set 'as' => 'RegistrarAdministrador' will be used to create URLs based on that route name, only, when something (browser, curl...) hit the URL the only ways to differentiate them is by

1) URL

2) URL parameters (which is basically number 1 plus parameters)

3) Method (GET, POST)

So you could change them to something like:

Route::post('gestionAdministrador/loguearse', array('as' => 'Loguearse', 'uses' => 'AdministradorController@Login'));

Route::post('gestionAdministrador/registrar', array('as' => 'RegistrarAdministrador', 'uses' => 'AdministradorController@RegistrarAdministrador'));

EDIT 2

What you really need to understand is that the name you give to a route ('as' => 'name') will not be part of your url, so this is not something that Laravel can use to differentiate your two URls, this is for internal use only, to identify your routes during the creation of URLs. So, those instructions:

$loguearse = URL::route('Loguearse');
$registrar = URL::route('RegistrarAdministrador');

Would generate exactly the same URL:

http://yourserver.dev/gestionAdministrador

EDIT 1 - TO ANSWER A COMMENT

Redirecting in Laravel is easy, in your controller, after processing your form, in any of your methods you can just:

return Redirect::to('/');

or

return Redirect::route('home');

Having a route like this one:

Route::get('/', array('as' => 'home', 'uses' => 'HomeController@index'));

So, your controller would look like this:

class AdministradorController extends Controller {

    public function RegistrarAdministrador() 
    {
        ...

        return Redirect::route('home');
    }

    public function Login() 
    {
        ...

        return Redirect::route('home');
    }
}