Passing a variable through url in laravel

Question

I'm fairly new to laravel and I'm struggling to get the format of my url correct.

It formats as http://mysite/blog?category1 instead of http://mysite/blog/category1

These are the files I am using. Is there a way to put the route into the BlogController?

Route.php

Route::get('blog/{category}', function($category = null)
{
    // get all the blog stuff from database
    // if a category was passed, use that
    // if no category, get all posts
    if ($category)
        $posts = Post::where('category', '=', $category)->get();
    else
        $posts = Post::all();

    // show the view with blog posts (app/views/blog.blade.php)
    return View::make('blog.index')
        ->with('posts', $posts);
});

Blogcontroller

class BlogController extends BaseController {


    public function index()
    {
        // get the posts from the database by asking the Active Record for "all"
        $posts = Post::all();

        // and create a view which we return - note dot syntax to go into folder
        return View::make('blog.index', array('posts' => $posts));
    }
}

blog.index blade

@foreach ($posts as $post)

    <h2>{{ $post->id }}</h2>
    <p>{{ $post->name }}</p>
    <p>{{ $post->category }}</p>
     <h2>{{ HTML::link(
    action('BlogController@index',array($post->category)),
    $post->category)}}


@endforeach

Solution 1

routes.php

Route::get('category', 'CategoryController@indexExternal');

*.blade.php print the completed url

<a href="{{url('category/'.$category->id.'/subcategory')}}" class="btn btn-primary" >Ver más</a>

Solution 2

I have added a new route in:

Route::get('blog/{category}', ['as' => 'post.path', 'uses' => 'BlogController@getCategory']);

and added a new link into index.blade:

<a href="{{ URL::route('post.path', [$post->category]) }}">{{ $post->category }}</a> 

Comments

[Martijn Thomas]

Are you on apache or nginx, I think this is a rewrite problem of the url.

[Tom Macdonald]

What do you mean by "It formats as" ? When you type into the browser? Or the links generated by Laravel?

[tom harrison]

The link generated by laravel from the db. it now display as localhost/blog?category=category1 and it also doesn't filter the db results so something is wrong somewhere

[tom harrison]

Thanks, I have updated my code but it still displays the link with the ? instead of the /.

[tom harrison]

Thanks, I have updated my code with the above and it still displays the link as mysite/blog?category1 instead of mysite/blog/category1

[tom harrison]

I have just tried this and no luck it still displays in the same way

[Adrenaxus]

Can you try to enter some junk value into your .htaccess to verify if it works? If it works you should get a 500 Internal Server Error

[Adrenaxus]

Well at least the .htaccess is working. We need more information such as whether you are on apache or nginx and what server environment you are working on (LAMP, WAMP,...) - also: is mod_rewrite enabled on your server?

[tom harrison]

mod_rewrite is enabled and i am running on xampp. Just to be clear if i got to mysite/blog/category1 manually, it displays the correct result. However it still outputs the url as mysite/blog?category1 using the laravel HTML:Link

[Peter]

in my app in my url i place ?category=1 and then in my controller i extract the variable with category = Input::get('category');