Redirection in laravel without return statement

Question

i have this blogsController, the create function is as follows.

public function create() {
  if($this->reqLogin()) return $this->reqLogin();
  return View:         


        

Answer 1

You should put the check into a filter, then only let the user get to the controller if they are logged in in the first place.

Filter

Route::filter('auth', function($route, $request, $response)
{
    if(!Auth::check()) {
       Session::flash('message', 'You need to login');
       return Redirect::to("login");
    }
});

Route

Route::get('blogs/create', array('before' => 'auth', 'uses' => 'BlogsController@create'));

Controller

public function create() {
  return View::make('blogs.create');
 }