Issues with Redirect in Laravel 4.1 - php

Question

I just started trying Laravel 4.1 today, and I've had to use a tutorial for Laravel 4.0, so I've had to troubleshoot certain parts of the code.
There's one part I couldn't troubleshoot, and i need some help with it.
These are the routes involved:
Route::get('authors/{id}/edit', array('as'=>'edit_author', 'uses'=>'AuthorsController#get_edit'));
Route::put('authors/update', array('uses'=>'AuthorsController#put_update'));
and these are the actions in the controller:
public function get_edit($id){
return View::make('authors.edit')->with('title', 'Edit Author')->with('author', Author::find($id));
}
public function put_update(){
$id = Input::get('id');
$author = array(
'name' => Input::get('name'),
'bio' => Input::get('bio'),
);
$validation = Author::validate($author);
if ($validation->fails()){
return Redirect::route('edit_author', $id);
}else{
Author::update($id, $author);
return Redirect::route('view_author', $id);
}
}
Note that in the routes i'm using {id} instead of (:any), because the latter didn't work for me.
On my browser the get_edit function runs ok at first, but then, when i click the submit button and it's supposed to execute put_update, whether it's supposed to redirect me to view_author or back to edit_author, it just gives me a NoFoundHttpException.
Just as additional information, i use the default .htacces which is this one:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect Trailing Slashes...
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Answer 1

Since you are using 4.1 so it should be {id} not (:any) and make sure you are using the right way to generate form, like this:
Form::open(array('action' => array('AuthorsController#put_update', $author->id), 'method' => 'put'))
Also close the form using Form::close(). Since you are not using a RESTful controller so you can use a method name as update instead of put_update and for RESTful method use putUpdate not put_update. So, you may use a route like:
Route::put('authors/update', array('uses'=>'AuthorsController#update'));
Then the method should be:
public function update($id)
{
// ...
if ($validation->fails()){
return Redirect::back()->withInput()->withErrors($validation);
}
else{
Author::update($id, $author);
return Redirect::route('view_author', $id);
}
}
So the form should be like:
Form::open(array('action' => array('AuthorsController#update', $author->id), 'method' => 'put'))
Also change your edit route to this:
Route::get('authors/edit/{id}', array('as'=>'edit_author', 'uses'=>'AuthorsController#edit'));
Make the change in the method as well:
public function edit($id)
{
//...
}