Laravel 5: Calling routes internally

Question

Is there a way, in Laravel 5, to call routes internally/programmatically from within the application? I've found a lot of tutorials for Laravel 4, but I cannot find the information for version 5.

Answer 1

Using laravel 5.5, this method worked for me:

$req = Request::create('/my/url', 'POST', $params);
$res = app()->handle($req);
$responseBody = $res->getContent();
// or if you want the response to be json format  
// $responseBody = json_decode($res->getContent(), true);

Source: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/route-dispatch

*note: maybe you will have issue if the route you're trying to access has authentication middleware and you're not providing the right credentials. to avoid this, be sure to set the correct headers required so that the request is processed normally (eg Authorisation bearer ...).

UPDATE: i've tried this method with laravel 8 and it works but if you're using PHP version 8.0 you might need to call opcache_reset(); before this line $req = Request::create('/my/url', 'POST', $params); to avoid an error.

see guzzlehttp/guzzle dosn't work after update php to php 8 for more info