Routes issue in laravel 4 - php

Question

I am new to laravel and learning it now. I am giving following Route in routes.php file
Route::resource('contacts', 'ContactsController');
But when I load my page in browser, it gives me following error
Unhandled Exception
Message:
Call to undefined method Laravel\Routing\Route::resource()
Location:
/Users/zafarsaleem/Sites/learning-laravel/application/routes.php on line 35
My complete routes.php file is below
Route::resource('contacts', 'ContactsController');
Route::get('/', function() //<------- This is line 35
{
return View::make('home.index');
});
How can I remove this error?
Edit
ContactsController code is below and I want index() function to be used
class ContactsController extends BaseController {
/**
* Display a listing of the resource.
*
* #return Response
*/
public function index()
{
Contact::all();
}
/**
* Show the form for creating a new resource.
*
* #return Response
*/
public function create()
{
//
}
/**
* Store a newly created resource in storage.
*
* #return Response
*/
public function store()
{
$input = Input::json();
Contact::create(array(
'first_name' => $input->first_name
'last_name' => $input->last_name
'email_address' => $input->email_address
'description' => $input->description
));
}
/**
* Display the specified resource.
*
* #return Response
*/
public function show($id)
{
return Contact::find($id);
}
/**
* Show the form for editing the specified resource.
*
* #return Response
*/
public function edit($id)
{
//
}
/**
* Update the specified resource in storage.
*
* #return Response
*/
public function update($id)
{
$contact = Contact::find($id);
$input = Input::json();
$contact->first_name = $input->first_name;
$contact->last_name = $input->last_name;
$contact->email_address = $input->email_ddress;
$contact->description = $input->description;
$contact->save();
}
/**
* Remove the specified resource from storage.
*
* #return Response
*/
public function destroy($id)
{
return Contact::find($id)->delete();
}
}
Edit 2
I tried both following routes but ended up same below error
Route::resource('contacts', 'ContactsController', ['only', => ['index']]);
Route::get('contacts','ContactsController#index');
After reinstalling laravel 4 now I am getting following error
404 Not Found
The requested URL /contacts was not found on this server.
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Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch Server at bb.dev Port 80
Edit 3
Here is what did now, I edit "/private/etc/apache2/users/.conf" and changed from "AllowOverride None" to "AllowOverride All" and then restarted my apache server. Now I am getting following error
403 Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /contacts on this server.
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Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch Server at bb.dev Port 80
Why don't I have permission for this contacts controller? It is making me crazy now.
Here is my .htaccess file
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Answer 1

Have you tried this on another server? A lot of things can go wrong with rewriting (I've lost hours fixing the .htaccess), so the problem may be Apache and not Laravel.
This works for me in public/.htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
And have you tried going to index.php/contacts instead of /contacts? If that works, the problem is Apache, not Laravel.

Answer 2

It may be a namespace issue -- it should be calling the function on Illuminate\Routing\Router but your exception refers to Laravel\Routing\Route::resource().
Is it possible that your configuration file still has references to Laravel3 in it?

Answer 3

Try changing your routes to
Route::resource('/contacts', 'ContactsController');
In ContactsController.php change index to return instance of the model
public function index()
{
return Contact::all();
}

Answer 4

I had the same $#%& issue, and after hours of searching I found it is not a problem of the .httacess file. What I just did to fix this:
composer update --dev
I think that the --dev bit is the important thing. Hope that helps someone.

Answer 5

ok i had the issue up to one minute ago!
it is because of ide-helper
to solve you should comment the following code in routes.php
use Illuminate\Routing\Route;