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Sainath Krishnan
Sainath Krishnan

Reputation: 2139

Laravel Route not working

I'm trying to create a form that submits data to a controller. However, I am getting this error -

Route [site.add] not defined.

This is my routes.php -

Route::resource('site','SiteController');
Route::get('submitsite','SiteController@submit');
Route::post('storesite','SiteController@add');

And this is my view file -

{{ Form::open(array(
         'route'     => 'site.add'
     ))
}}

 //Form Elements go here

{{ Form::close() }}

I literally replaced the names from another controller that works perfectly, this one is giving me problems though..

Upvotes: 1

Views: 156

Answers (2)

The Alpha
The Alpha

Reputation: 146191

You have declared a route without a name like this:

Route::post('storesite','SiteController@add');

In the form generating code you are using 'route' => 'site.add' and no route is availble with this name so now you can either change the form generating code to this:

{{ Form::open(array('url' => 'site.add')) }}

Or you can change the route declaration by assigning a name to it:

Route::post('storesite', array('as' => 'site.add', 'uses' => 'SiteController@add'));

The as used to assign a name to that route and uses is used to assign the controller@method name as it's action handler.

It's better to use a named route because to generate a URI for a given route you can only use the route name instead of a complex URI and it's easy to remember and also doesn't effect the code if you change the URI for that route at any point because URIs created from a named route using the name doesn't depend on the URI/PATH directly, it gets generated on run time so easy to maintain. So, if you have a route like this:

Route::post('storesite', array('as' => 'site.add', 'uses' => 'SiteController@add'));

And you have used a form like this:

{{ Form::open(array('route' => 'site.add')) }}

Now if you change the uses/action from SiteController@add to SiteController@addnew then you can do it even without touching the other code because your route has been used by it's name not directly using the SiteController@add to generate the URI.

Upvotes: 2

Anam
Anam

Reputation: 12169

Route [site.add] not defined because you haven't added the name route yet.

Replace Route::post('storesite','SiteController@add');

to

Route::post('storesite',[ 'as' => 'site.add', 'uses' => 'SiteController@add']);

Upvotes: 0

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