use DELETE method in route with Laravel 5.4 - php

Question

I'm working on a Laravel (v 5.4) project and i did the CRUD to manage categories. Currently, i can create a new category and i would be able to delete.
I created the view (with blade) to delete the categories :
<table class="table">
<thead>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Action</th>
</thead>
<tbody>
#foreach ($categories as $category)
<tr>
<td>$category->name</td>
<td>
<a href="{{ url('/categories', ['id' => $category->id]) }}">
<button class="btn btn-default">
Delete
</button>
</a>
</td>
</tr>
#endforeach
</tbody>
</table>
And in the routing file web.php, i wrote :
Route::delete('/categories/{id}', CategoryController#destroy);
I have a controller CategoryController with a method destroy() who delete category and redirect to list of categories. But when i click on the button to delete, i get an error that explain this route is not define. If i replace Route::delete with Route::get it works. I think the url is called with GET but i would keep that for an other action.
I tried to replace the link with a form and "DELETE" as the value of "method" attribute but it didn't work.
How can i call url with DELETE method to catch it with Route::delete ?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you click on an url it will always be a GET method.
Since you wish to define it as DELETE, you should remake it into a post form and add
<input type="hidden" name="_method" value="delete" />
in it. Like replace:
<a href="{{ url('/categories', ['id' => $category->id]) }}">
<button class="btn btn-default">Delete</button>
</a>
with:
<form action="{{ url('/categories', ['id' => $category->id]) }}" method="post">
<input class="btn btn-default" type="submit" value="Delete" />
<input type="hidden" name="_method" value="delete" />
<input type="hidden" name="_token" value="{{ csrf_token() }}">
</form>
Same goes for PUT request.
Since Laravel 5.1 method_field:
<form action="{{ url('/categories', ['id' => $category->id]) }}" method="post">
<input class="btn btn-default" type="submit" value="Delete" />
{!! method_field('delete') !!}
{!! csrf_field() !!}
</form>
Since Laravel 5.6 just with # tag:
<form action="{{ url('/categories', ['id' => $category->id]) }}" method="post">
<input class="btn btn-default" type="submit" value="Delete" />
#method('delete')
#csrf
</form>

Answer 2

For laravel 5.7 please look my example:
<form action="{{route('statuses.destroy',[$order_status->id_order_status])}}" method="POST">
#method('DELETE')
#csrf
<button type="submit">Delete</button>
</form>

Answer 3

Any method other than GET and POST requires you to specify the method type using a hidden form input. That's how laravel detects them. In your case you need to send the delete action using a form. Do this.
<table class="table">
<thead>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Action</th>
</thead>
<tbody>
#foreach ($categories as $category)
<tr>
<td>$category->name</td>
<td>
<form action="/categories/{{ $category->id }}" method="post">
{{ method_field('delete') }}
<button class="btn btn-default" type="submit">Delete</button>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
#endforeach
</tbody>
</table>