Laravel dynamic return from controller?

Question

I need to return a different view from a controller depending on the route that is requested.

For example: in my application I have clients, devices and campaigns. All have CRUD's created, but in some cases I want to do something like "view clients, delete his campaign and returning to the clients view" but my campaignsController@delete returns to campaigns by default.

The idea is not rewrite the same controller only changing the route of returning, does Laravel have something to help with this?

Thank you

Answer 1

Laravel will not control the whole flow of your application. If you have a campaign delete router:

Route::delete('campaign/{id}');

and it returns to campaigns

class CampaignController extends Controller {

    public function delete($id)
    {
        $c = Campaign::find($id);

        $c->delete();

        return Redirect::route('campaigns');
    }

}

You will have to trick your route to make it go to wherever you need to, there should be dozens of ways of doing that, this is a very simple one:

Route::delete('campaign/{id}/{returnRoute?}');

class CampaignController extends Controller {

    public function delete($id, $returnRoute = null)
    {
        $returnRoute = $returnRoute ?: 'campaigns';

        $c = Campaign::find($id);

        $c->delete();

        return Redirect::route($returnRoute);
    }

}

And create the links in those pages by using the return route option:

link_to_route('campaign.delete', 'Delete Campaign', ['id' => $id, 'returnRoute' => 'clients'])