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Laravel Application Development Cookbook

By : Terry Matula
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Laravel Application Development Cookbook

By: Terry Matula

Overview of this book

When creating a web application, there are many PHP frameworks from which to choose. Some are very easy to set up, and some have a much steeper learning curve. Laravel offers both paths. You can do a quick installation and have your app up-and-running in no time, or you can use Laravel's extensibility to create an advanced and fully-featured app.Laravel Application Development Cookbook provides you with working code examples for many of the common problems that web developers face. In the process, it will also allow both new and existing Laravel users to expand their knowledge of the framework.This book will walk you through all aspects of Laravel development. It begins with basic set up and installation procedures, and continues through more advanced use cases. You will also learn about all the helpful features that Laravel provides to make your development quick and easy. For more advanced needs, you will also see how to utilize Laravel's authentication features and how to create a RESTful API.In the Laravel Application Development Cookbook, you will learn everything you need to know about a great PHP framework, with working code that will get you up-and-running in no time.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Laravel Application Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Gathering form input to display on another page


After a user submits a form, we need to be able to take that information and pass it to another page. This recipe shows how we can use Laravel's built-in methods to handle our POST data.

Getting ready

We'll need the simple form set up from the Creating a simple form section.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to complete this recipe:

  1. Create a route to handle the POST data from the form:

    Route::post('userform', function()
    {
        // Process the data here
        return Redirect::to('userresults')-
            >withInput(Input::only('username', 'color'));
    });
    
  2. Create a route to redirect to, and to display the data:

    Route::get('userresults', function()
    {
        return 'Your username is: ' . Input::old('username')
            . '<br>Your favorite color is: '
            . Input::old('color');
    });
    

How it works...

In our simple form, we're POSTing the data back to the same URL, so we need to create a route that accepts POST using the same path. This is where we would...