How to test Laravel 5 controllers methods

Question

We have Laravel 5 controllers method:

public function getInput()
{
    $input = \\Request::all();
    $links = $input[\'links\'];
    $this->startLinks =  exp         


        

Answer 1

I think you are looking for this.

If your test class extends TestCase you will get a lot of helper methods which will do heavy lifting for you.

function testSomething() {
    // POST request to your controller@action
    $response = $this->action('POST', 'YourController@yourAction', ['links' => 'link1 \n link2']);
    // you can check if response was ok
    $this->assertTrue($response->isOk(), "Custom message if something went wrong");
    // or if view received variable
    $this->assertViewHas('links', ['link1', 'link2']);
}

Codeception extends this functionality even further.