Laravel Put Route Giving 404 Error - php

Question

So I have been trying to use the "put" method in my routing, I have followed this example directly from the "routes.php" file:
Route::put('hello/(:any)', function($name)
{
return "Welcome, $name.";
});
This returns a 404 error, I really want my code to look like below. I want to be able to take to parameters from the url and use them for verification, later on I plan to use an encoding method but for now I just wanted to get the routes working properly before I tried encoding them. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
Route::put('admin/activate/(:any?)/(:any?)', function($r, $e) {
return "Random value: $r <br/> Email: $e";
});
You can find the page here: http://diverseevolution.com/admin/activate/randomstring/test#gmail.com
Here is my overall "routes.php" file:
Route::get('/', function() {
return View::make('homepage.index');
});
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////// Administration Account Creation & Login /////////////////////
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Create account
Route::get('admin/createform', function() {
return View::make('admin.createform');
});
// action for actual admin creation
Route::post('admin/create', array('before' => 'csrf', function() {
$rules = array(
'fname' => 'required|min:3',
'lname' => 'required|min:3',
'email' => 'required|email|unique:users',
'pword' => 'required'
);
$validated = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules);
if($validated -> fails()) {
return Redirect::to('admin/createform')->with_input();
} else {
$r = Hash::make(time() .'ReAl19dk4-^4$'. $_POST['pword']);
$user = new User;
$user -> fname = $_POST['fname'];
$user -> lname = $_POST['lname'];
$user -> email = $_POST['email'];
$user -> pword = Hash::make($_POST['pword']);
$user -> status = 'unactivated';
$user -> random = $r;
if($user -> save()) {
//////////////////////// Email /////////////////////////////////
// We still need to make this functionality
$msg = '
<h1>Your admin account has been created!</h1>
<p>Congratulations on creating your new account, there is one last step before your account can be activated. Below is a link, simply follow the link to activate your account, once you have your account will be active and you will be able to login!</p>
<p>http://diverseevolution.com/admin/activate/'. $r .'/'. $_POST['email'] .'</p>
<p>Thanks, Diverse Evolution</p>
';
// Mail headers
$headers = "Reply-To: Diverse Evolution <info#diverseevolution.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: Diverse Evolution <info#diverseevolution.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "From: Diverse Evolution <info#diverseevolution.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "Organization: Diverse Evolution\r\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP". phpversion() ."\r\n";
define('_headers', $headers);
if(mail($_POST['email'], 'Diverse Evolution Account Created', $msg, _headers)) {
return Redirect::to('admin/thanks');
} else {
}
} else {
return Redirect::to('admin/createform')->with_input();
}
}
}));
// creates the thank you page for the admin account creation
Route::get('admin/thanks', function() {
return View::make('admin/thanks');
});
// account activation email, this is still not working 011613
Route::put('admin/activate/(:any?)/(:any?)', function($r, $e) {
return "Random value: $r <br/> Email: $e";
});
// Login form
Route::get('admin/loginform', function() {
return View::make('admin/loginform');
});
// Login action
Route::post('admin/login', array('before' => 'csrf', function() {
$rules = array(
'email' => 'required|email',
'pword' => 'required'
);
$validated = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules);
if($validated -> fails()) {
return Redirect::to('admin/loginform')->with_input();
} else {
$credentials = array('username' => $_POST['email'], 'password' => $_POST['pword']);
if (Auth::attempt($credentials)) {
return Redirect::to('admin/dash');
} else {
return Redirect::to('admin/loginform')->with_input();
}
}
}));
Route::get('admin/logout', function() {
Auth::logout();
return Redirect::to('admin/loginform');
});
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////////////// Administration Pages ////////////////////////////////
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Route::group(array('before' => 'auth'), function() {
Route::get('admin/dash', function() {
return 'Dashboard';
});
});
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Application 404 & 500 Error Handlers
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| To centralize and simplify 404 handling, Laravel uses an awesome event
| system to retrieve the response. Feel free to modify this function to
| your tastes and the needs of your application.
|
| Similarly, we use an event to handle the display of 500 level errors
| within the application. These errors are fired when there is an
| uncaught exception thrown in the application.
|
*/
Event::listen('404', function()
{
return Response::error('404');
});
Event::listen('500', function()
{
return Response::error('500');
});
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Route Filters
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Filters provide a convenient method for attaching functionality to your
| routes. The built-in before and after filters are called before and
| after every request to your application, and you may even create
| other filters that can be attached to individual routes.
|
| Let's walk through an example...
|
| First, define a filter:
|
| Route::filter('filter', function()
| {
| return 'Filtered!';
| });
|
| Next, attach the filter to a route:
|
| Route::get('/', array('before' => 'filter', function()
| {
| return 'Hello World!';
| }));
|
*/
Route::filter('before', function()
{
// Do stuff before every request to your application...
});
Route::filter('after', function($response)
{
// Do stuff after every request to your application...
});
Route::filter('csrf', function()
{
if (Request::forged()) return Response::error('500');
});
Route::filter('auth', function()
{
if (Auth::guest()) return Redirect::to('admin/loginform');
});

Answer 1

You didnt include your form - but I'm guessing you didnt include a "PUT" in the form.
echo Form::open('user/profile', 'PUT');
You can see more about forms and PUT here. But in general, you need to specifically include PUT in your form, otherwise it will just be POST (browser default).

Answer 2

Using GET works?
or
Route::put('hello/(:all)', function($name)
{
return "Welcome, $name.";
});
all becouse #