Laravel 4: Multi-Page Form on the same route? - php

Question

Hello folks I am stuck.
I want to register a User in Laravel 4. Now the thing is, that I want to first grab the email and password and save them in the database. And in step 2 of the registration process, I want to grab all the other details like first and last name and so on.
The difficulty is, that everything should be under one route called signup, for example everything under http://example.org/signup
Another difficulty is, that I have to access the same route with the same methods (GET & POST) twice, because I once get and post the form for Email and Password, and then I get and post the First, Last and Company Name into the Database.
I came up with the following solution, to store everything into the session, because through the session I can access the variables. So whenever I access my UserController I check, if there is data in the session and if yes, redirect to form 2.
Here are all my files:
http://help.laravel.io/d4104cae42f9a2efe1466ce53d086826bc9f6d7f
My Get-Method from the UserController:
public function create()
{
if(Session::has('email')) {
return View::make('frontend.signup.step2');
}
else {
return View::make('frontend.signup.step1');
}
}
My Post-Method from the UserController:
public function store()
{
// If User has a email and password in the session from the first create-View
// his data should be stored and then he gets redirected to a new create-View
Session::flush();
Session::put('email', Input::get('email'));
Session::put('password', Input::get('password'));
if (Session::has('email')) {
try
{
// Let's register a user.
$user = Sentry::register(array(
'email' => Input::get('email'),
'password' => Input::get('password'),
));
// Let's get the activation code
$activationCode = $user->getActivationCode();
// Send activation code to the user so he can activate the account
// Save Email in Emaillist
Email::create(array(
'email' => Session::get('email')
));
// Redirect
return Redirect::action('UserController#create');
}
return Redirect::route('signup');
}
else {
return 'No Session here';
}
}
Here are my routes:
Route::get('signup', array('as' => 'signup', 'uses' => 'UserController#create'));
Route::post('signup', array('as' => 'signup', 'uses' => 'UserController#store'));
For some reason I believe that it gets unneccessary complicated and I believe that there must be another more simple and intuitiv way to solve this, instead with if statements and redirects to the same controller-method.
Nonetheless I came up with some other solutions, for example just using the "signup" as prefix, but I don't like it that way.
Route::group(array('prefix' => 'signup'), function()
{
Route::get('/', function(){
return 'Yeab bababy yea';
});
Route::get('step1', array('as' => 'signup.step1', 'uses' => 'UserController#getStep1'));
Route::post('step1', array('as' => 'signup.step1', 'uses' => 'UserController#postStep1'));
Route::get('step2', array('as' => 'signup.step2', 'uses' => 'UserController#postStep2'));
Route::post('step2', array('as' => 'signup.step2', 'uses' => 'UserController#postStep2'));
});
Is there any way of accomplishing the task while only using one route and without using clientside Javascript to store the variables in the database? (I am a unexperienced with ajax)
The Goal should be to catch the email and still stay on the same route, like those smart guys here for example:
https://www.crazyegg.com/signup
I hope there is a way. Thank you for your help Internet.
Kind regards,
George
P.S.
It's 1 am here in Germany, so don't be mad if I don't respond the next couple of hours to comments, because I am going to sleep now. Thank you very much.