passing in arguments to a restful controller in laravel

Question

I have just started implenting restful controllers in laravel 4. I do not understand how to pass parameters to the functions in my controllers when using this way of routing.

Controller:

class McController extends BaseController
{
            private $userColumns = array("stuff here");

    public function getIndex()
    {
            $apps = Apps::getAllApps()->get();
            $apps=$apps->toArray();
            return View::make('mc')->nest('table', 'mc_child.table',array('apps'=>$apps, 'columns'=>$this->userColumns));
    }

    public function getTable($table)
    {
            $data = $table::getAll()->get();
            $data=$data->toArray();
            return View::make('mc')->nest('table', 'mc_child.table',array('apps'=>$apps, 'columns'=>$this->userColumns));
    }

}

route:

 Route::controller('mc', 'McController');

I am able to reach both URLs so my routing is working. How do I pass arguments to this controller when using this method of routing and controllers?

Darwing · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-30 01:27:00Z

4

When you define a restful controller in Laravel, you can access the actions throgh the URI, e.g. with Route::controller('mc', 'McController') will match with routes mc/{any?}/{any?} etc. For your function getTable, you can access with the route mc/table/mytable where mytable is the parameter for the function.

EDIT You must enable restful feature as follow:

class McController extends BaseController
{
    // RESTFUL
    protected static $restful = true;

    public function getIndex()
    {
        echo "Im the index";
    }

    public function getTable($table)
    {
        echo "Im the action getTable with the parameter ".$table;
    }
}

With that example, when I go to the route mc/table/hi I get the output: Im the action getTable with the parameter hi.

edited Aug 30, 2013 at 1:27

answered Aug 29, 2013 at 23:20

Darwing

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6 Comments

arrowill12 Over a year ago

I can access the rout with mc/table. the get is what lets laravel know to call it for the action get, Therefore making it restful. when i pass another string into the url ex. mc/table/mytable it looks for 'mytable' as a function in the controller. that is the issue I am having. I would like to know if it is even possible to pass arguments to the controller using this way of routing.

arrowill12 Over a year ago

This looks like you are using laravel 3. there may be some difference for laravel 4.

Darwing Over a year ago

No. That example was made with Laravel 4 and I think there is not much difference in L3. It's weird you can pass parameters. Maybe trying a new installation of L4.

arrowill12 Over a year ago

I do not have protected static $restful = true; in my code I thought that this was not necessary in laravel 4.

arrowill12 Over a year ago

ahhh I guess it ended up being the code in my function! it is working now. thank you!

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