Laravel 4: Redirect a post request to different controller method

Question

I have a controller like below,
MyController:

public function methodA() {
    return Input::get('n')*10;
}  

public function methodB() {
    return Input::get('n')*20;
}  

I want to call the a method inside MyController according to POST value.

routes.php

Route::post('/', function(){
    $flag = Input::get('flag');
    if($flag == 1) {
        //execute methodA and return the value
    } else {
        //execute methodB and return the value
    }
});

How can i do this ?

Answer 1

What I think would be a cleaner solution is to send your post request to different URLs depending on your flag and have different routes for each, that map to your controller methods

Route::post('/flag', 'MyController@methodA');
Route::post('/', 'MyController@methodB);

EDIT:

To do it your way, you can use this snippet

Route:post('/', function(){
    $app = app();
    $controller = $app->make('MyController');
    $flag = Input::get('flag');
    if($flag == 1) {
        return $controller->callAction('methodA', $parameters = array());
    } else {
        return $controller->callAction('methodB', $parameters = array());
    }
});

Source

OR

Route:post('/', function(){
    $flag = Input::get('flag');
    if($flag == 1) {
        App::make('MyController')->methodA();
    } else {
        App::make('MyController')->methodB();
    }
});

Source

And just to note - I have absolutely zero practical experience with Laravel, I just searched and found this.