Laravel: How to show form after submission? - php

Question

I am new to Laravel and currently working on a project where the guests enter form data for booking a room in a hotel and after submitting it, they will be redirected to a page showing their booking they have just done. I know this can be done by allowing guests to create login account but my project requires login only for the backend(admin). (Q2.)Also the guests can view booking by entering the booking ID and their last name.
My controller:
public function store(Request $request)
{
$book = new book();
$book->title = $request->input('title');
$book->fname = $request->input('firstname');
$book->lname = $request->input('lastname');
$book->country = $request->input('country');
$book->phone = $request->input('phone');
$book->email = $request->input('email');
$book->no_rooms = $request->input('no_rooms');
$book->room_type_id = $request->input('type_room');
$book->no_adults = $request->input('adults');
$book->no_children = $request->input('children');
$book->meal_id = $request->input('meal');
$book->check_in = $request->input('check_in');
$book->check_out = $request->input('check_out');
$book->save();
}
public function show(book $book)
{
return view('book.show', compact('book'));
}
The way I want it to display after it has been submitted:
<div class="row">
<div class="col-6">
<table class="table table-striped text-dark">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td> Name: </td>
<td> {{$book->title}} {{$book->firstname}} {{$book->lastname}} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Phone </td>
<td> {{$book->phone}} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Email </td>
<td> {{$book->email}} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Phone </td>
<td> {{$book->phone}} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Passport Issued: </td>
<td> {{$book->country}} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Number of rooms: </td>
<td> {{$book->no_rooms}} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Room Type </td>
<td> {{$book->type_room}} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> No of adults: </td>
<td> {{$book->adults}} </td>
</tr><tr>
<td> No of children: </td>
<td> {{$book->children}} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Meal plan: </td>
<td> {{$book->meals_id}} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Check-in: </td>
<td> {{$book->check_in}} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Check-out: </td>
<td> {{$book->check_out}} </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>

Answer 1

You can redirect to the show method from the bottom of your store method:
// Replace MyController with the name of your controller
return redirect()->action(
'MyController#show', ['book' => $book]
);
For more information check out the documentation: https://laravel.com/docs/master/redirects#redirecting-controller-actions

Answer 2

If I understand correctly your situation, you wish to show the same data introduced by the user after form submission.
I can think that redirecting to a page that show your div without anything else, is not enough. You'll still need to access to data entered in the form.
Laravel store form data in a session variable called old, according to documentation, that variable should be available during next request after submission, so you could try to get data using
<table class="table table-striped text-dark">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td> Name: </td>
<td> {{ old('title') }} {{ old('firstname') }} {{ old('lastname') }} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Phone </td>
<td> {{ old('phone') }} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Email </td>
<td> {{ old('email') }} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Phone </td>
<td> {{ old('phone') }} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Passport Issued: </td>
<td> {{ old('country') }} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Number of rooms: </td>
<td> {{ old('no_rooms') }} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Room Type </td>
<td> {{ old('type_room') }} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> No of adults: </td>
<td> {{ old('adults') }} </td>
</tr><tr>
<td> No of children: </td>
<td> {{ old('children') }} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Meal plan: </td>
<td> {{ old('meals_id') }} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Check-in: </td>
<td> {{ old('check_in') }} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Check-out: </td>
<td> {{ old('check_out') }} </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Just in case that you don't have old data available in your session because a successive redirect, you should inject that data in your session using flash.
You can find more detailed information here, in laravel documentation

Answer 3

You can just use the laravel helper redirect()
return redirect()->route('route name here');
or
return redirect('your-form-path');
read more here: laravel http redirects