Laravel rendering view with proper URL

Question

So my view users contains a list of all registered users. It also features a button to delete a specific user, so I created a controller and a route

users/delete/[email protected]

in my controller, UsersController, I handle the delete action. The user gets deleted and I return to users with an success alert which states that the user was deleted.

$message = "User ".$user. " successfully deleted";
return View::make('users')->with(compact('message')); 

which works, the alert is displayed. However, Chrome displays localhost:8000/users/delete/[email protected], which I can understand since I just 'make' (render) the users view within the users/delete/{email} route. Now that I'm really new to Laravel (and SO, so please be understanding) I wonder how to get Chrome to display localhost:8000/users and still show the message. I'm merely confused.

Answer 1

What you are looking for is called "flash messages". Here is an example:

On your controller you redirect with the message.

return redirect('users')->with('status', 'User deleted!');

After you simply have to display the message on the view like this.

@if (session('status'))
    <div class="alert alert-success">
        {{ session('status') }}
    </div>
@endif

Here is more documentation: https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/redirects#redirecting-with-flashed-session-data