Laravel 5 Form Submit to View - php

Question

I'm recoding my website and moving over to Laravel but for some reason I can't figure out how to have a search form that redirects you to a profile page.
<form class="navbar-form navbar-right search" role="search" action="/profile/" method="GET">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control navbar-player-search" placeholder="Enter IGN here" autocomplete="off" required>
<div class="input-group-btn">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">
<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-search"></i>
</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
I have a route already set up which works if I went to example.com/profile/Callahan
Route::get('/profile/{Profile}', 'PlayerController#getStats');
but I need the form to do that same thing.
Is it possible to do this with default laravel 5.4.3 or do I need something like https://laravelcollective.com/docs/5.3/html?

Answer 1

I don't understand exactly the information which the input contains, but I'll consider this:
The user will write in the input and click on search.
Then, in your controller, you'll get the profile name after the search and redirect to the profile. Is that the case?
If yes, you should do something like that:
Routing
Route::get('/profile/{Profile}', 'PlayerController#getStats');
Route::get('/search', 'PlayerController#searchForm');
Route::post('/search', 'PlayerController#search');
Controller
public function searchForm() {
return view('search');
}
public function search(Request $request) {
// get the input
$inputText = ...;
// logic to get the profile name
$profileName = ...;
return redirect('/profile/'.$profileName);
}
View
<form class="navbar-form navbar-right search" role="search" action="/search" method="POST">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control navbar-player-search" placeholder="Enter IGN here" autocomplete="off" required>
<div class="input-group-btn">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">
<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-search"></i>
</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
Once again, I don't know if it's what you really want, but if it's not, let me know to try help you again.