rerouting after calling a function in Laravel 5 - php

Question

I'm getting my feet wet with Laravel 5 and I need a little advice on Routing.
I'm running in to a problem over and over and I feel like I'm definitely not grasping the proper way to do this.
Lets say I have a route:
Route::post('viewarticles', 'LoginController#user_check_article_list');
This is where I am taken after I login.
This route shows me my articles that I can edit. On the page this route takes you to I have a list of articles and delete buttons next to them. When I click delete I have it linked to
delete/{{ $article->id }}
I then have a route:
Route::get('delete/{id}', 'ArticleController#deleteArticle');
Which then goes to this function:
public function deleteArticle(Request $request, $id) {
$article = Article::find($id);
$article->delete();
$articles = Article::latest('published_at')->Published()->get();
return view('admin.article_edit_list',['articles'=>$articles]);
}
The last two lines of this is me rebuilding that article list and then loading the view.
THE PROBLEM: In my url the page is still ../delete/someid
I really just need a way to transfer back to the routes.

Answer 1

Instead of returning a view, return a redirect. This will cause the url to change:
public function deleteArticle(Request $request, $id)
{
$article = Article::find($id);
$article->delete();
return redirect('/some-url');
}
Or if using named routes:
return redirect()->route('some.route.name');
Source

Answer 2

so if your url is staying at /delete/{id} you need to redirect to the the display articles view
public function deleteArticle(Request $request, $id) {
$article = Article::find($id);
$article->delete();
return \Redirect::to('show_articles.view');
}

Answer 3

how do you send the delete request ? is it via ajax?
if so you need to redirect to your view in the success method of your ajax call using js / most likely jQuery?
.success(function(){
location.href = '/your/new/view';
});
its worth checking your variables are getting through to your controller as well
public function ...
echo $id; exit(); // or dd($id);
and checking your collection loaded
$articles = ...
dd($artcles);
retrun view(...
also if you go in to app/config/app.php and set debug=true you should get an error stack which will help debug the issue. Sorry for the delay internet went down before I could finish typing.