Laravel send variable to the view

Question

routes.php

    Route::post(\"/{user}/{char_name}\", array(
        \'as\' => \'char-profile-post\',
        \'uses\' => \'ProfileController@postDropDownL         


        

Answer 1

Laravel can absolutely send multiple variables to a view, and here's some code showing how I do it in a project of mine:

Route:

Route::get('play/{id}', array('before' => 'loggedin', 'uses' => 'GameController@confirmEntry'));

As you can see, in this route, I expect the variable id to be passed to my controller.

Controller:

public function confirmEntry($id){
    //stuff that doesn't matter
    $data = array('puzzle' => $puzzle,
                  'user'   => $user,
                  'wallet' => $wallet);
    return View::make('game.solver-confirm', $data);
}

In the above example, since I list $id as a parameter, and I have id in my route, $id will be set to whatever it was in the route. For instance, if I went to play/56, $id would be equal to 56.

View:

@foreach ($puzzle->tile as $tile)
    
a list gets made here
@endforeach

You can see in the controller, I passed $puzzle (along with a few other variables) to the view, and then I call them just like you showed in my view.

Issues with yours:

The first issue I see is that you accept two variables from your route, and then overwrite them. That doesn't make much sense to me:

public function postDropDownList($user, $char_name) {
    $user = Auth::user();
    $char_name = Input::get('choose');
    //more stuff here
}

Why bother passing $user and $char_name only to overwrite them?

That makes me thing that the issue you're having is because your data is structured poorly. I'd suggest doing a var_dump or print_r to see how $char_name is actually being structured.

References:

• http://us2.php.net/var_dump

• http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.print-r.php