Generating URL::route with parameter in Laravel 4 - php

Question

I am having trouble getting getting my parameter of 'item id' to tack onto the end of my route being generated for my form action url.
I have a page setup to 'update' an existing item. The routes looks something like this:
Route::get('/item/edit/{id}', array(
'as' => 'item-edit',
'uses' => 'ItemController#getEditItem',
));
Route::post('/item/edit/{id}', array(
'as' => 'item-edit-post',
'uses' => 'ItemController#postEditItem',
));
and my ItemController contains these methods:
public function getEditItem($id) {
$states = State::where('user_id', '=', Auth::user()->id)->get();
$types = Type::where('user_id', '=', Auth::user()->id)->get();
$item = Item::where('user_id', '=', Auth::user()->id)
->where('id', '=', $id)
->first();
return View::make('items.edit')
->with('item', $item)
->with('states', $states)
->with('types', $types);
}
public function postEditItem($id) {
// Validate input for Item changes
$validator = Validator::make(Input::all(),
array(
'label' => 'required|min:3|max:128|unique:items,label,null,id,user_id,' . Auth::user()->id,
'type_id' => 'required|integer',
'state_id' => 'required|integer',
)
);
if( $validator->fails() ) {
return Redirect::route('item-edit')
->withErrors($validator)
->withInput();
} else {
$item = Item::find($id);
$item->label = Input::get('label');
$item->type_id = Input::get('type_id');
$item->state_id = Input::get('state_id');
$item->save();
return Redirect::route('item-create')
->with('global', 'Your new item has been edited successfully!');
}
}
The last piece of the puzzle is my items.edit view:
#extends('layout.main')
#section('content')
<form action="{{ URL::route('item-edit-post', $item->id) }}" method="post" class="form-horizontal form-bordered" autocomplete="off">
<!-- some inputs and such -->
</form>
#stop
The action URL being generated here is wrong:
<form method="POST" action="http://manageitems.com/item/edit/%7Bid%7D" accept-charset="UTF-8" hello="hello" class="form-horizontal form-bordered">
For some reason it is escaping my {id} in the route and not adding on the actual item ID on the end of the route. I have tried a few different ways of doing this and read through the route parameter docs, but I haven't made any progress. I also tried using Laravel's for builder like so:
{{ Form::open(array('action' => 'ItemController#postEditItem', $item->id, 'class'=>'form-horizontal form-bordered')) }}
but this did the same thing. I am new to Laravel so this may be a simple problem that I am overlooking, any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

Use an array in the second parameter.
URL::route('item-edit-post', ['id' => $item->id])
Or the route helper (what I would go with, fits more in view files).
route('item-edit-post', ['id' => $item->id])

Answer 2

It seems that $item->id returns null.
And this is how you do it, when you specify action or route in the Form::open:
Form::open(['route' => ['some.route', $param]]);
Form::open(['action' => ['controller#action', $param]]);