Laravel 5: how to redirect with data to external resource form controller

Question

I want to send user to payment gate. Normally it could be made by this form:

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Answer 1

You can redirect to an external URL with Laravels's redirect. First import the Redirect to your controller and

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redirect;
return Redirect::away($redirectUrl)->with(['user_id'=>$user_id]);

would help you to send the request as a post with the needed params.