CRUD Laravel 4 how to link to destroy?

Question

I will destroy my user with a HTML link, but it doesn't seem to generate the correct link, what am i doing wrong?

public function destroy($id) {     //Slet brugeren     $e = new User($id);     $e->destroy();      //Log også brugeren ud     Auth::logout();      //redrect til forsiden     Redirect::to("users/create"); } 

In my view i call this {{URL::action('UserController@destroy', array($user->id))}}

Answer 1

Update 08/21/2017 for Laravel 5.x

The question asks about Laravel 4, but I include this in case people looking for Laravel 5.x answers end up here. The Form helper (and some others) aren't available as of 5.x. You still need to specify a method on a form if you are doing something besides GET or POST. This is the current way to accomplish that:

<form action="/foo/bar" method="POST">     <input type="hidden" name="_method" value="PUT">     <input type="hidden" name="_token" value="{{ csrf_token() }}">     <!-- other inputs... --> </form> 

You can also use {{ method_field('PUT') }} instead of writing out the hidden _method input.

See https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/routing#form-method-spoofing

Original Answer for Laravel 4

I think when you click the link, it is probably sending a GET request to that end point. CRUD in Laravel works according to REST. This means it is expecting a DELETE request instead of GET.

Here's one possibility from a tutorial by Boris Strahija.

    {{ Form::open(array('route' => array('admin.pages.destroy', $page->id), 'method' => 'delete')) }}         <button type="submit" class="btn btn-danger btn-mini">Delete</button>     {{ Form::close() }} 

This way, you send the request in a form with the DELETE method. The article explains why a traditional link won't work:

You may notice that the delete button is inside a form. The reason for this is that the destroy() method from our controller needs a DELETE request, and this can be done in this way. If the button was a simple link, the request would be sent via the GET method, and we wouldn’t call the destroy() method.

Answer 2

An cool ajax solution that works is this:

function deleteUser(id) {     if (confirm('Delete this user?')) {         $.ajax({             type: "DELETE",             url: 'users/' + id, //resource             success: function(affectedRows) {                 //if something was deleted, we redirect the user to the users page, and automatically the user that he deleted will disappear                 if (affectedRows > 0) window.location = 'users';             }         });     } }  <a href="javascript:deleteUser('{{ $user->id }}');">Delete</a> 

And in the UserController.php we have this method:

public function destroy($id) {     $affectedRows  = User::where('id', '=', $id)->delete();      return $affectedRows; }