Laravel 5.X Forward To URL | Redirect To Route | Forward Request | Mock Request | Mock HTTP Request | Dynamic HTTP Request | Laravel Dispatch Request

Laravel 5.X Forward To URL | Redirect To Route | Forward Request | Mock Request | Mock HTTP Request | Dynamic HTTP Request.

It's easy to forward a request using Laravel Route. Forwarding do for you is URL will not change but response will change. The way it is working is that it will mock a request using Request::create(...) and dispatch using current Router.

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Routing\Router;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Http\Request as HttpRequest;

class MyController extends Controller {
    public function __construct(HttpRequest $httpRequest, Router $router) {
        $this->middleware('auth', ['except' => ['action1', 'action2']]);

        $this->httpRequest = $httpRequest;
        $this->appRouter = $router;
    }

    //Route=my/need-forward (Create new request and dispatch)
    public function needForward() {
        //http://www.domain.com/my/need-forward
        $route_name = action("MyController@forwardHere");
        //http://www.domain.com/other-folder/my/need-forward
        $route_name = action("OtherFolder\\MyController@forwardHere");
        //http://www.domain.com/my/need-forward/100/Name%20Text?roll=303
        $route_name = action("MyController@forwardHere", ["id" => 100, "name" => "Name Text", "roll" => 303]);
        $request = HttpRequest::create($route_name, 'GET', array("param1" => "Param 1", "param2" => "Param 2"));
        return app()->handle($request);
    }

    //Route=my/need-forward (Forward same request to new route)
    public function needForward2() {
        $route_name = "my/forward-here";
        $request = HttpRequest::create($route_name);
        return  $this->appRouter->dispatch($request);
    }

    //Route=my/forward-here
    public function forwardHere() {
        echo "Browse [/my/need-forward] will send output of [/my/forward-here]";
    }
}

Http Redirect Using Laravel

Laravel is a strong php based framework today. It is very important forward to another url or redirect as http function. There are several ways describes in Laravel. The best way is redirect using Controller & Action. Using Controller Action is easy to redirect to another url:

return redirect()->action(
    'SomeController@action', ['id' => 1, 'status' => 'active']
);

Or you also can do the following:

return redirect("/afterRedirect/param1?x=1&y=2");