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Ali Raza
Ali Raza

Reputation: 83

Unable to delete in laravel

I am using laravel 5.2 and I am unable to delete article in laravel. Below is my view link:

<form method="DELETE" action="/article/{{ $article->id }}">
{{ csrf_field() }}
<button class="btn btn-danger" type="submit">Delete</button>
</form>

Below is my controller code:

  public function destroy($id)
{
     Article::destroy($id);
     Session::flash('msg','Article deleted successfully');
     return redirect()->back();
}

Below are route listing: enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Views: 62

Answers (2)

pritesh
pritesh

Reputation: 2192

In your view file what you need to do is...

<form method="POST" action="/article/{{ $article->id }}">
<input type="hidden" name="_method" value="DELETE">
{{ csrf_field() }}
<button class="btn btn-danger" type="submit">Delete</button>
</form>

Upvotes: 0

James
James

Reputation: 16359

HTML forms don't actually support any methods other than GET and POST. To get around this Laravel spoofs the method and then picks this up in the request.

From the docs:

HTML forms do not support PUT, PATCH or DELETE actions. So, when defining PUT, PATCH or DELETE routes that are called from an HTML form, you will need to add a hidden _method field to the form. The value sent with the _method field will be used as the HTTP request method

As such, you just need to alter your form like so:

<form method="POST" action="/article/{{ $article->id }}">
    {{ csrf_field() }}
    <input type="hidden" name="_method" value="DELETE">
    <button class="btn btn-danger" type="submit">Delete</button>
</form>

You can also generate the _method with {{ method_field('DELETE') }} using Blade.

Upvotes: 1

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