Adding form action in html in laravel

Question

I am unable to pass url in views html form action tag.

<form method="post" action="??what to write here??" accept-charset="UTF-8">

I want to set it's action to WelcomeController@log_in function in WelcomeController file in controllers.

Here are my routes:

Route::get('/','WelcomeController@home');
Route::post('/', array('as' => 'log_in', 'uses' => 'WelcomeController@log_in'));
Route::get('home', 'HomeController@index');

After submitting it keeps the same url

http://localhost:8000/

And the main error line

Whoops, looks like something went wrong.

After that there is 1/1 TokenMismatchException in compiled.php line 2440:

Answer 1

Form Post Action :

<form method="post" action="{{url('login')}}" accept-charset="UTF-8">

Change your Route : In Routes -> Web.php

Route::post('login','WelcomeController@log_in');

Answer 2

I wanted to store a post in my application, so I created a controller of posts (PostsController) with the resources included:

php artisan make:controller PostsController --resource

The controller was created with all the methods needed to do a CRUD app, then I added the following code to the web.php in the routes folder :

Route::resource('posts', 'PostsController');

I solved the form action problem by doing this:

1. I checked my routing list by doing php artisan route:list
2. I searched for the route name of the store method in the result table in the terminal and I found it under the name of posts.store
3. I added this to the action attribute of my form: action="{{route('posts.store')}}" instead of action="??what to write here??"

Answer 3

Use action="{{ action('WelcomeController@log_in') }}"

however TokenMismatchException means that you are missing a CSRF token in your form.

You can add this by using <input name="_token" type="hidden" value="{{ csrf_token() }}">

Answer 4

1) In Laravel 5 , form helper is removed .You need to first install laravel collective .

Refer link: https://laravelcollective.com/docs/5.1/html

{!! Form::open(array('route' => 'log_in')) !!}

OR

{!! Form::open(array('route' => '/')) !!}

2) For laravel 4, form helper is already there

{{ Form::open(array('url' => '/')) }}

Answer 5

You can use the action() helper to generate an URL to your route:

<form method="post" action="{{ action('WelcomeController@log_in') }}" accept-charset="UTF-8">

Note that the Laravel 5 default installation already comes with views and controllers for the whole authentication process. Just go to /home on a fresh install and you should get redirected to a login page.

Also make sure to read the Authentication section in the docs

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The error you're getting now (TokenMismatchException) is because Laravel has CSRF protection out of the box

To make use of it (and make the error go away) add a hidden field to your form:

<input name="_token" type="hidden" value="{{ csrf_token() }}"/>

Alternatively you can also disable CSRF protection by removing 'App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken' from the $middleware array in app/Http/Kernel.php

Answer 6

The following should work.

{{  Form::open( array('url' => action('WelcomeController@log_in'), 'files'=>true,'method'=>'post') )  }}

...
{{ Form::close() }}