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 submit the form is posted however I do not get the desired output, I see the original view again.

Here is my view index.blade.php

@extends('master')

@section('container')

<div class="wrapper">

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

</div><!-- /wrapper -->

@stop

and my routes.php

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

Route::post('/', function() 
{
return 'successfull';
});

What I've tried so far

I tried changing the post to a different view and it worked. However I want the form to post to the same view itself.
Instead of returning a string I tried to return make a view still it didn't work.

What am I doing wrong?

addendum

I see that when the form is making the post request I am getting a 301 MOVED PERMANENTLY HEADER

Route::any('/', function() { return View::make('index'); }); — Ahmed Abumostafa, Jul 07 '13 at 11:20
Can you show me the result when you use the `index` view file in your `POST` route? — Hieu Le, Jul 07 '13 at 15:02
1) What URL are you using to access the form? 2) What *other* routes do you have defined? — fideloper, Jul 07 '13 at 16:04
@TryingTobemyselfRahul what I want to do is that when someone submits the form it gets posted to the same view itself and I see the 'success' message. Thanks for your reply! — Ragzor, Jul 07 '13 at 16:12
@Trung-HieuLe I see the exact same view and nothing changes its just like the page refreshes. I am supposed to see the successfull message right. Thanks for your reply! — Ragzor, Jul 07 '13 at 16:13
@fideloper I am using the home url in my case it is shorten.dev/ which points to localhost:8888/shorten/public/ basically it is the home route and I have no other Routes Defined. this is the whole content of the routes.php file. Thanks for your reply! — Ragzor, Jul 07 '13 at 16:14
Is this the exact code are you trying with? Because its working for me, can you show your code? — Trying Tobemyself, Jul 07 '13 at 18:00
@Ragzor - great, so you are able to view the site at `shorten.dev/`? I think you see my point - your form being set to submit to `/`, which should be going to `shorten.dev/` and not to `localhost:8888/` since your code is not "listening" at `localhost:8888/`. — fideloper, Jul 07 '13 at 18:32
hello @TryingTobemyselfRahul yes it is exactly the same code — Ragzor, Jul 07 '13 at 19:28
@fideloper yes I tried that as well :/ i removed the alias shortened.dev/ and went back to the regular localhost localhost:8888 and I also tried removing and adding the slash '/' but chrome seems to automatically inserting the slash. — Ragzor, Jul 07 '13 at 19:30

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 09 '13 at 22:48

11

{{ Form::open(array('url' => ' ', 'method' => 'post')) }}

Passing a space as the url has worked for me.

answered Oct 09 '13 at 22:48

Raul

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Route::post('/', 'UserController@login'); doesn't work unless the form url is empty, this is true only for post to homepage – Elia Weiss Dec 20 '13 at 07:38
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worked for me too, but does anyone know why this weird issue? – Akshay Khale Oct 25 '15 at 18:22

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

I think this post: Form submits as GET Laravel 4 is related to your problem. I think the problem as I undersood it is caused by end a form url with a / . I found this when having problems to using post to a ./ url in my form. There is also a bug at github that seems like it is related https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/1804.

I know this is an old question but I found this thread having the same problem so hopefully someone else is helped by my answer.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 20 '13 at 16:35

You need to make sure that your form's method does NOT end in a / for it to be routed correctly. For example if you have the following route:

Route::post('form/process', function()
{
   # code here ...    
});

Then you need to have the following form definition:

<form action="/form/process" method="POST">

I hope that helps.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 28 '14 at 10:13

I have same problem with OSx + MAMP, initially I've resolved with Raul's solution:

{{ Form::open(array('url' => ' ', 'method' => 'post')) }}

but after consultation with my friend we have concluded that my problem was due to the fact my lavarel project is avaliable by long local path, as:

 http://localhost/custom/custom2/...

in this location the post/get method on root path ("/") not working correctly.

Lavarel to working correctly must be avaliable by "vhost", in this case the problem get/post method on root location "/" not exist.

My friend advised me to use http://www.vagrantup.com/

BYE

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 07 '13 at 11:57

There is some helpfull information in the Laravel Docs. Check these out:

I recommend you read the Resource Controllers documentation as it makes form handling a lot easier.

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 07 '13 at 16:44

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')

<div class="wrapper">
     @if (isset($message))
     <p>{{$message}}</p>
     @endif

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

</div><!-- /wrapper -->

@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');          
});

Hello!Thanks alot for the reply, Yes this is the correct way of doing it However this is also not working in this case I found out that when the app is making a post request I get a 301 moved permanently header so it just gets back to the get request and I see the default view. I tried the same thing on laravel 3 and it was working. No clue what is going on here :/ — Ragzor, Jul 07 '13 at 17:12

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 29 '15 at 06:43

The problem is with defualt slashed in Apache from 2.0.51 and heigher: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryslash

The best solution if you do not want to change Apache config is to make the post in a different path:

GOOD:

Route::get('/', 
  ['as' => 'wizard', 'uses' => 'WizardController@create']);

Route::post('wizard-post', 
  ['as' => 'wizard_store', 'uses' => 'WizardController@store']);

NOT GOOD:

Route::get('/', 
  ['as' => 'wizard', 'uses' => 'WizardController@create']);

Route::post('/', 
  ['as' => 'wizard_store', 'uses' => 'WizardController@store']);

laravel form post issue

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