laravel method in href link?

Question

I want to create a dropdown with two links. A 'Delete' and a 'Edit' link.

For the delete function I created a form.

                        {!! Former::horizontal_open()->method('DELETE')->action(action("Test\\TestController@destroythread", $comment->id)) !!}
                        {!! Former::danger_submit('Delete') !!}
                        {!! Former::close() !!}

The form works, that means my comment get's deleted, if I'm pressing the button.

No I decided to remove the delete button and do a dropdown with a delete link. So I need to get the logic of this form in my dropdown menu.

But I haven't got this in the dropdown.. The optical 'Delete' button is this part of the dropdown:

<li><a href="#">
Delete
</a></li> 

But I can't just put my controller function in that "href-link", cause without the 'DELETE'-Method, it won't work. I hope you all understand what I'm trying to say... my english isn't the best anyway.

Can somebody help me with this?

Thanks for any help!

I tried it like this before but this haven't worked either:

<li>
    <a>
        {!! Former::horizontal_open()->method('DELETE')->action(action("Test\\TestController@destroythread", $comment->id)) !!}
        Delete
        {!! Former::close() !!}
    </a>
</li>

my try linking directly to the route:

<li><a href="{{ route('destroy', $comment->id) }}">Delete</a></li>

and my Route looks like this:

Route::delete('/show/{id}', 'Test\\TestController@destroythread')->name('destroythread');

but this haven't worked for me..

all /show/ routes:

Route::get('/show/{id}', 'Test\\TestController@show');
Route::put('/show/{id}/edit', ['as' => 'editing', 'uses' => 'Test\\TestController@update']);
Route::get('/show/{id}/edit', 'Test\\TestController@edit')->name('edit');
Route::delete('/show/{id}', 'Test\\TestController@destroy')->name('destroy');


Route::delete('/show/{id}', 'Test\\TestController@destroythread')->name('destroythread');   // this is the route we are talking about 

Answer 1

Laravel uses method spoofing to do 'DELETE', 'PUT', 'PATCH' form requests. Like @Jilson Thomas mentioned, you can just create a link directly to the route. I suspect you're using resourceful routes, thats why you're trying to post a DELETE request?

Have a look at this section in the routing docs, this may help you out: https://laravel.com/docs/master/controllers#restful-supplementing-resource-controllers

Based on your routes posted, I believe the following two routes are matching before it gets to your desired route.

Route::put('/show/{id}/edit', ['as' => 'editing', 'uses' => 'Test\\TestController@update']);
Route::delete('/show/{id}', 'Test\\TestController@destroy')->name('destroy');

Try moving your desired route above these and see what happens.

Edit

<li><a href="{{ route('destroy', $comment->id) }}">Delete</a></li>

That will produce a GET request, therefore it will not match Route::delete(...). The previous method was posting a form to the route. Also, wrapping an entire form in an anchor tag is invalid markup.

Answer 2

So, as per the discussion in the comments, you'll have to use ajax request to do a delete request from an anchor tag.

$.ajax({
    url: '/show/'+$('#testId').attr('value'),
    type: 'DELETE',
    success: function(data){ if(data.success) alert('Deleted'); },
    error: function() {} 
});

and in your route:

Route::delete('/show/{id}', ['as'=>'destroy', 'uses'=>'Test\\TestController@destroy']);

HTML

<li><a href="#" id="testId" value="{{$comment->id}}">Delete</a></li>

Answer 3

Alternative way, try 'Laravel Collective' Html Helper.

HTML

{!! Form::open('delete', 
    'method' => 'delete,
    'route'  => ['show.destroy', $comment->id]
) !!}

     {!! Form::submit('Submit') !!}

{!! Form::close() !!}

routes.php

Route::delete('show/{show}', [
  'uses' => 'TestController@destroy',
  'as' => 'show.destroy'
]);