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Nabil Farhan
Nabil Farhan

Reputation: 1536

Can I define any route without callback function in laravel?

To register a route, I specify the route in web.php in following way,

Route::get($uri, $callback)->name($name);

Is there any way to do this without any specific callback function?

I am building a laravel website but some portion are made with perl. I need to submit a form to a url where the perl code takes over. However, as the form is used in many places I want to use the $name part as form action inside my front end codes.

Essentially what I want is something like this,

Route::get('cgi-bin/route_to_perl_program.cgi', "DO NOTHING. LET PERL DO IT JOB")->name($url_name);

Upvotes: 1

Views: 526

Answers (2)

NIKHIL NEDIYODATH
NIKHIL NEDIYODATH

Reputation: 2932

You can put your route_to_perl_program.cgi file in public folder and access yourdomain.com/route_to_perl_program.cgi. It will run. You need not put it the route.

Or try something like the following

Route::get('cgi-bin/route_to_perl_program.cgi', function(){
    exec('cgi-bin/route_to_perl_program.cgi');
})->name($url_name);

Upvotes: 0

Md. Amirozzaman
Md. Amirozzaman

Reputation: 1125

If you not to define any $callback function,there is no need to define a route in web.php. As you want to use route('name') to produce that url in all your blade file,there is an alternative. You need to add this line of code in your config/app.php as follows:

perl_url => 'cgi-bin/route_to_perl_program.cgi',

And use them in your blade like as

<a href="{{ config('app.perl_url')}}">link text</a>

This is not your answer,this might be a solution of your specific need.

In your $callback function to run a command to execute your perl file and get back the output and return that output as a response.,e.g: 

.....
$yourPerlOutPut = exec('perl  ~/your/path/yourfile.pl'); 
return response($yourPerlOutPut);

exec() executes the given command.

Upvotes: 1

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