laravelroutes

What is reverse routing conceppt in laravel

Please, anyone, explain what is reverse routing with example. I'm searching this question but still confused about this reverse routing concept.

Solution

  • For example the following route declaration tells Laravel to execute the action “signUp” in the controller “UsersController” when the request’s URI is ‘signUp’.

    http://mycoolsite.com/signUp

    Route::any('signUp’, 'UsersController@register’);

    Traditionally, we may link to the registration page like this:

    {{ HTML::link('signUp’, 'Register Now!’) }}

    However, this has the unfortunate disadvantage of being dependent on our route declaration. If we change the route declaration to:

    http://mycoolsite.com/signup

    Route::any('register’, 'UsersController@signUp’);

    Then our link will be wrong. We’ll have to go throughout our entire site and fix our links. Hope we don’t miss one!

    Instead, let’s use reverse-routing.

    {{ HTML::link_to_action('UsersController@signUp’, 'Register Now!’) }}

    Now, the link that we generate will automatically change when we change our routing table. In our first example it’d generate http://mycoolsite.com/register. Then, when we change the routes call to match our second example it’ll generate http://mycoolsite.com/signup.

    In traditional routing you depend on route declaration. In reverse routing on the some action(method, function)