Adding form action in html in laravel

Question

I am unable to pass url in views html form action tag.

<form method="post" action="??what to write here??" accept-charset="UTF-8">

I want to set it's action to WelcomeController@log_in function in WelcomeController file in controllers.

Here are my routes:

Route::get('/','WelcomeController@home');
Route::post('/', array('as' => 'log_in', 'uses' => 'WelcomeController@log_in'));
Route::get('home', 'HomeController@index');

After submitting it keeps the same url

http://localhost:8000/

And the main error line

Whoops, looks like something went wrong.

After that there is 1/1 TokenMismatchException in compiled.php line 2440:

Answer 1

You can use the action() helper to generate an URL to your route:

<form method="post" action="{{ action('WelcomeController@log_in') }}" accept-charset="UTF-8">

Note that the Laravel 5 default installation already comes with views and controllers for the whole authentication process. Just go to /home on a fresh install and you should get redirected to a login page.

Also make sure to read the Authentication section in the docs

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The error you're getting now (TokenMismatchException) is because Laravel has CSRF protection out of the box

To make use of it (and make the error go away) add a hidden field to your form:

<input name="_token" type="hidden" value="{{ csrf_token() }}"/>

Alternatively you can also disable CSRF protection by removing 'App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken' from the $middleware array in app/Http/Kernel.php