Laravel - Redirections

Laravel - Redirections

Redirecting to Named Routes

Named routes allow you to refer to routes by a specific name, making your application more maintainable. You can assign a name to a route using the name() method chained onto the route definition.

Route::get('user/profile', function () {
   // Logic for user profile
})->name('profile');

Note: Here, we have given the name “profile” to the route user/profile.

To redirect to a named route, you can use the route() helper method on the redirect() instance:

return redirect()->route('profile');

Example

Step 1: Create a view called profile_display.blade.php and save it at resources/views/profile_display.blade.php.

resources/views/profile_display.blade.php

<html>
    <body>
        <h1>User Profile Page (Reached via Named Route)</h1>
    </body>
</html>

Step 2: In routes/web.php, set up the route for the profile_display.blade.php view and name it user.profile.page. Also, set up another route /go-to-profile which will redirect the request to the named route user.profile.page.

routes/web.php

Route::get('/user/actual-profile', function(){
   return view('profile_display');
})->name('user.profile.page');

Route::get('/go-to-profile', function(){
   return redirect()->route('user.profile.page');
});

Step 3: Visit the following URL to test the named route redirection.

http://localhost:8000/go-to-profile

Step 4: After execution of the above URL, you will be redirected to http://localhost:8000/user/actual-profile because the /go-to-profile route redirects to the named route user.profile.page.

Step 5: The browser will display the content of profile_display.blade.php, which is ‘User Profile Page (Reached via Named Route)’.

Redirecting to Controller Actions

You can also redirect to controller actions. Pass the controller class and the action method name (as a string or an array) to the action() method. If your controller route requires parameters, you can pass them as a second argument to the action() method.

// Without parameters
return redirect()->action([UserProfileController::class, 'show']);

// With parameters
return redirect()->action([PhotoController::class, 'show'], ['id' => 1]);

Example

Step 1: Execute the below command to create a controller called DashboardController.

php artisan make:controller DashboardController

Step 2: After successful execution, you will see a message like ‘Controller created successfully.’ in your console.

Step 3: Copy the following code into the file app/Http/Controllers/DashboardController.php.

app/Http/Controllers/DashboardController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class DashboardController extends Controller
{
   public function index(){
      return "Welcome to your Dashboard!";
   }
}

Step 4: Add the following lines in routes/web.php.

routes/web.php

use App\Http\Controllers\DashboardController;

// The actual route handled by the controller
Route::get('/dashboard', [DashboardController::class, 'index'])->name('dashboard.show');

// A route that redirects to the controller action
Route::get('/redirect-to-dashboard', function(){
   return redirect()->action([DashboardController::class, 'index']);
});

Step 5: Visit the following URL to test the redirection to a controller action.

http://localhost:8000/redirect-to-dashboard

Step 6: The output will be ‘Welcome to your Dashboard!’, as the request is redirected to the index method of DashboardController.