Laravel 5.6 - Get Route By Name In Controller

Question

Within my login controller there is a hardcoded URL string which sets where to redirect to once the user has logged in. I am trying to make this dynamic by getting the route by name:

protected $redirectTo = '/home';

Updated To:

protected $redirectTo = route('home');

However the above give the following error:

FatalErrorException (E_UNKNOWN) Constant expression contains invalid operations

Is it possible to get the URL to the route by its name?

Solution 1

You can use

request()->route()->getName()

To get the url you would use

request()->url()

And the path

request()->path()

Current route method

request->route()->getActionMethod()

In the case of redirectTo you can override the function:

protected function redirectTo() {
    return route('foo.bar');
}

Solution 2

Your problem is that you're not allowed to use a function call when declaring a property in your class. You should use your controller's constructor to set it:

class LoginController extends Controller
{
    protected $redirectTo = '/home';

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware('guest')->except('logout');
        $this->redirectTo = route('home');
    }
}

Alternatively, you can define a redirectTo method which returns the location that you want the user to be redirected to after a successful login. You can then remove the $redirectTo property altogether:

class LoginController extends Controller
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware('guest')->except('logout');
    }

    public function redirectTo()
    {
        return route('home');
    }
}

Comments

[Bas]

look in the middleware directory, there is an auth file, thats the place