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palatok
palatok

Reputation: 1034

Laravel 4: Redirect a post request to different controller method

I have a controller like below,
MyController: 

public function methodA() {
    return Input::get('n')*10;
}  

public function methodB() {
    return Input::get('n')*20;
}

I want to call the a method inside MyController according to POST value.

routes.php

Route::post('/', function(){
    $flag = Input::get('flag');
    if($flag == 1) {
        //execute methodA and return the value
    } else {
        //execute methodB and return the value
    }
});

How can i do this ?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4339

Answers (3)

Daniel Gasser
Daniel Gasser

Reputation: 5133

This is for Laravel 4.x. When using Laravel 5, you need to add Namespaces... The question is about Laravel 4

The Route::controller() method is what you need.

Your routes files should look like this:

Route:post('/', function(){
    $flag = Input::get('flag');
    if($flag == 1) {
        Route::controller('/', 'MyController@methodA');
    } else {
        Route::controller('/', 'MyController@methodB');
    }
});

And the methods would look like this:

public function methodA() {
    return Input::get('n') * 10;
}  

public function methodB() {
    return Input::get('n') * 20;
}

Upvotes: 3

php_nub_qq
php_nub_qq

Reputation: 16025

What I think would be a cleaner solution is to send your post request to different URLs depending on your flag and have different routes for each, that map to your controller methods

Route::post('/flag', 'MyController@methodA');
Route::post('/', 'MyController@methodB);

EDIT:

To do it your way, you can use this snippet

Route:post('/', function(){
    $app = app();
    $controller = $app->make('MyController');
    $flag = Input::get('flag');
    if($flag == 1) {
        return $controller->callAction('methodA', $parameters = array());
    } else {
        return $controller->callAction('methodB', $parameters = array());
    }
});

Source

OR

Route:post('/', function(){
    $flag = Input::get('flag');
    if($flag == 1) {
        App::make('MyController')->methodA();
    } else {
        App::make('MyController')->methodB();
    }
});

Source

And just to note - I have absolutely zero practical experience with Laravel, I just searched and found this.

Upvotes: 6

dev7
dev7

Reputation: 6369

According to your answer in the comments, your need 1 url and deciding which method to use based on the $_POST value. This is what you need:

In your Routes.php file, add a general method that 

Route::post('/', 'MyController@landingMethod);

In your MyController file:

public function landingMethod() {
    $flag = Input::get('flag');
    return $flag == 1 ? $this->methodA() : $this->methodB();//just a cleaner way than doing `if...else` to my taste
} 

public function methodA() { //can also be private/protected method if you're not calling it directly
    return Input::get('n') * 10;
}  

public function methodB() {//can also be private/protected method if you're not calling it directly
    return Input::get('n') * 20;
}

Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 3

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