Linking in Laravel Blade Template

Question

I am quite new to Laravel but I've watched quite a lot of tutorials to get into it, so I am used to it now. However, I am stuck at a point where I want to link to a users favorites in one of my blade.php files.

This is the link in my bootstrap navbar:

<li><a href="{{ URL::to('users/' . $user->id . '/favortites' }}"><i class="fa fa-heart">    </i> Favorites</a></li>

I have tried using URL::to but it does not work. I am not sure whether I am implementing the userId correctly.

In the end the link I want to access should look like this: users/5/favorites if the user with an id of 5 is the authenticated user.

I would really appreciate some help here.

Thank you.

Answer 1

HTML::linkAction /

have a look at the docs for more :)

laravel helpers

Answer 2

There are several options. You can use the link_to_action / HTML::linkAction helper if you're linking to a controller's method:

<li>{{ HTML::linkAction('UserController@getFavorites', 'Favorites', ['id' => 5], ['class' => 'abc']) }}</li>

Another option is to link to a named route with link_to_route / HTML::linkRoute:

 <li>{{ HTML::linkRoute('user.favorites', 'Favorites', ['id' => 5], ['class' => 'abc']) }}</li>

You can find more information on helpers in the documentation and in the API pages for HtmlBuilder and UrlGenerator.