Laravel Form Request(s) Handling Redirects after Validation
Example
Sometimes you may want to have some login to determine where the user gets redirected to after submitting a form. Form Requests give a variety of ways.
By default there are 3 variables declared in the Request $redirect, $redirectRoute and $redirectAction.
On top of those 3 variables you can override the main redirect handler getRedirectUrl().
A sample request is given below explaining what you can do.
<?php namespace App;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest as Request;
class SampleRequest extends Request {
// Redirect to the given url
public $redirect;
// Redirect to a given route
public $redirectRoute;
// Redirect to a given action
public $redirectAction;
/**
* Get the URL to redirect to on a validation error.
*
* @return string
*/
protected function getRedirectUrl()
{
// If no path is given for `url()` it will return a new instance of `Illuminate\Routing\UrlGenerator`
// If your form is down the page for example you can redirect to a hash
return url()->previous() . '#contact';
//`url()` provides several methods you can chain such as
// Get the current URL
return url()->current();
// Get the full URL of the current request
return url()->full();
// Go back
return url()->previous();
// Or just redirect back
return redirect()->back();
}
/**
* Get the validation rules that apply to the request.
*
* @return array
*/
public function rules()
{
return [];
}
/**
* Determine if the user is authorized to make this request.
*
* @return bool
*/
public function authorize()
{
return true;
}
}
