Laravel: How does Controller access parameters from Route? - php

Question

I am very obviously a noob to Laravel and hope that someone can help me out.
The about screen is accessed through the route
Route::get('/about', array('as' => 'about', function()
{
return View::make('about')->with('title','About Screen')->with('class','about');
}));
The variables $title and $class are accessible in about.blade.php by {{ $title }} and {{ $class }}. If instead, I have a Controller in between,
Route::get('hello/create', array('as' => 'create', 'uses' =>
'HelloController#create', function()
{
return View::make('hello/create')->with('title','Create')->with('class','hello.create');
}));
How do I access $title and $class in the HelloController.php code (so that I can propagate the values to the coming View)?
P.S. I do know about the /hello/create/{name of variable} which is the answer on nearly all questions similar to this, but don't know how to use it to transmit variables NOT keyed onto the Http Request.

Answer 1

$title and $class are the values you are manually giving to the blade. These aren't the values that you are receiving in GET parameters in your route. So, you would do it the same way as you did in the closure.
Your route:
Route::get('hello/create', array('as' => 'create', 'uses' => 'HelloController#create'));
Controller method:
class HelloController{
public function create(){
return View::make('hello/create')->with('title','Create')->with('class','hello.create');
}
}
UPDATE:
From what I understood, you can also call controller's method inside the route's closure and pass parameters to the controller and call the view with these values inside the controller's method.
Your route file:
use App\Http\Controllers\HelloController;
Route::get('hello/create',function(){
$hello_obj = new HelloController();
return $hello_obj->create('create','hello.create');
});
Controller method:
class HelloController{
public function create($title,$class){
return View::make('hello/create')->with('title',$title)->with('class',$class);
}
}

Answer 2

First you need to clear your flow. You are -at the moment- manually setting the variables to be returnet to the view, so your route should look like this:
Route::get('hello/create', 'HelloController#create');
Then, your controller handles the logic:
public function create(Request $request)
{
return view('hello.create')->with('title','Create')->with('class','hello.create');
}
Now, if you need to send parameters from your frontend to your controller, you have two options:
Define route parameters.
Use query params.
Option 1
For the first option, you'll need to define your required/optional parameters in the route itselft:
Route::get('hello/create/{a_variable}', 'HelloController#create');
Then you access this parameter in any of this ways:
public function create(Request $request)
{
return view('hello.create')->with('a_variable', $request->a_variable);
}
or injecting the variable in the method:
public function create(Request $request, $a_variable)
{
return view('hello.create')->with('a_variable', $a_variable);
}
Option 2
For the use of query params, you should include this options when making the request. If your route looks like this:
Route::get('hello/create', 'HelloController#create');
You could specify query params like this:
GET www.my-domain.com/hello/create?first_parameter=value_1&second_parameter=value_2
So in your controller you access this values like this:
public function create(Request $request)
{
$value_1 = $request->get('first_parameter');
$value_2 = $request->get('second_parameter');
return view('hello.create')
->with('value_1', $value_1)
->with('value_2', $value_2);
}

Answer 3

You are alreading sending data to view using with().
Echo it in your view file using $variablename set in with() Example: <?php echo $title; ?>