CRUD Laravel 5 how to link to destroy of Resource Controller?

Question

I have a link

<a class="trashButton" href="{{ URL::route('user.destroy',$members['id'][$i]) }}" style="cursor: pointer;"><i class="fa fa-trash-o"></i></a>  

this link is supposed to direct to the destroy method of the Usercontroller , this is my route Route::resource('/user', 'BackEnd\UsersController');

UserController is a Resource Controller. But at this moment it is directing me to the show method rather than directing to the destroy method

Answer 1

You need to send a DELETE request instead of a GET request. You can't do that with a link, so you have to use an AJAX request or a form.

Here is the generic form method:

<form action="{{ URL::route('user.destroy', $members['id'][$i]) }}" method="POST">     <input type="hidden" name="_method" value="DELETE">     <input type="hidden" name="_token" value="{{ csrf_token() }}">     <button>Delete User</button> </form> 

If you're using Laravel 5.1 or later then you can use Laravel's built-in helpers to shorten your code:

<form action="{{ route('user.destroy', $members['id'][$i]) }}" method="POST">     {{ method_field('DELETE') }}     {{ csrf_field() }}     <button>Delete User</button> </form> 

If you're using Laravel 5.6 or later then you can use the new Blade directives to shorten your code even further:

<form action="{{ route('user.destroy', $members['id'][$i]) }}" method="POST">     @method('DELETE')     @csrf     <button>Delete User</button> </form> 

You can read more about method spoofing in Laravel here.

Answer 2

This is because you are requesting the resources via GET method instead DELETE method. Look:

DELETE  /photo/{photo}  destroy     photo.destroy GET     /photo/{photo}  show    photo.show 

Both routes have the same URL, but the header verb identifies which to call. Looks the RESTful table. For example, via ajax you can send a DELETE request:

$.ajax({     url: '/user/4',     type: 'DELETE',  // user.destroy     success: function(result) {         // Do something with the result     } });