Laravel reverse routing - route url needs query string attached

Question

In a view, I want to create a link (generate the url) to a route. I believe this is called “reverse routing.” I want to add a query string to the generated url.

The target routes need to take a query string parameter to specify what kind of view to return, e.g. partial, basic, full. I will also be adding other query string params for search terms and fields. I will need to pass these on to my api that is called with my dispatcher (consuming my own api).

Route::get('thing/{id}', [
    'uses' => 'path\to\namespace\ThingController@show',
    'as' => 'thng.show']);
Route::get('thing/form/{id?}', [
    'uses' => 'path\to\namespace\ThingController@form',
    'as' => 'thng.form']);

In a view:

<td>{{ link_to_route('thng.show?filter="partial"', $row->title,
                ['id' => $row->id])  }}</td>

I tried simply appending ?string to the route name within link_to_route, but that doesn't work (Error = Route [lstg.show?filter="partial"] not defined). I'm not sure how to hard-code it either since it's a named route and does take a named route parameter.

cheelahim cheelahim · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-29T06:23:07

In your case I guess you should try something like this:

<td>{{ link_to_route('thng.show', $row->title, ['filter' => 'partial', 'id' => $row->id]) }}</td>

Note: Using link_to_route function you should distinguish URL parameters (query string) which is third argument and HTML attributes of anchor tag itself, which is last argument.

Laravel reverse routing - route url needs query string attached

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