laravel-webpage not available - php

Question

I am using laravel 4. I have a table which displays data from "cars" table. I want to click at one of car's name and display all information about this vehicle in a new page. I have done this:
index.blade.php
#foreach ($cars as $car)
<tr>
<td>
{{ HTML::link('/desc', $car->Description, array('id' => 'linkid'), true) }}</td>
{{ Form::open(array('action' => 'CarController#showDesc', $car->id)) }}
{{ Form::hidden('id', $car->id) }}
{{ Form::close() }}
<td>
{{ $car->License }}</td>
<td>{{ $car->Make }}</td>
<td>{{ $car->status }}</td>
</tr>
#endforeach
CarController.php
public function index() {
$cars = Car::all();
return View::make('pages.index', compact('cars'));
}
public function showDesc() {
$description = //here want to get name, year, color from "cars" where id = POST['id']
return View::make('pages.description', compact('description'));
}
//pages description is the new page which will display all information about that specific vehicle ,
routes.php
Route::resource('cars', 'CarController');
Route::post('desc', array('uses' => 'CarController#showDesc'));
The problem is that browser shows: This webpage not available

Answer 1

you are using Route::resource('cars', 'CarController'); and this will create restful routes to access your controller and in the car controller you should have functions like index(), show($id), destroy($id).
To see what are the valid routes, run php artisan routes in your project directory.
if you want to follow the restful pattern which is what you want to do I think by using a resource route. be sure you have the function show($id) in your CarController. the route to that function is cars/{$id} so in your view make a link to this route:
{{link_to_action('CarsController#show', $car->Description, $car->id)}}
I hope this will fix the problem

Answer 2

in your view you have a link to "/description" and in the routes.php file you don't have a route to that link