Laravel link to action not working without a defined route

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I might be misunderstanding the link to route helper, but its not working without a route set up in my routes file.

{{ link_to_action('UserController@loginWithFacebook', 'Facebook Login in', $parameters = array(), $attributes = array('class' => 'btn btn-primary fb-login-btn')); }}

Then an old route when I was linking to a URI was:

    Route::get('loginuser2', array('uses' => 'UserController@loginWithFacebook'));

However, I thought link_to_action was a direct call to the method. After removing the above link in my routes file I get not defined route errors for the controller method.

Any ideas how to avoid this?

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phplaravellaravel-4controllerroutes

2 Answers

4
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You cant link to an action if the route itself does not exist. The route must be defined.

So you need to keep the route defined, and then link_to_action() will continue to work. On the backend it is looking at your routes to find the same route with that action - and uses that URL.

There is no way to avoid it.

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link_to_action is used to link to a controller. you should use

link_to to generate html link

echo link_to('foo/bar', $title, $attributes = array(), $secure = null);