Laravel route in bootstrap button

Question

I want to make a button that links to route: normindex

This blow does not seem to work.

 <button href={{ HTML::link('normindex')}} type="button" class="btn btn-default">Left</button>
 <button href="normindex" type="button" class="btn btn-default">Left</button>

This below does work but generates a link, not a button.

{{ HTML::link('normindex','Left')}}

Does anyone have any idea?

Answer 1

Try the following:

<a href="{{ URL::route('normindex') }}" class="btn btn-default"> Norm Index </a>

or

link_to_route('normindex', 'Norm Index', null, array('class' => 'btn btn-default'));

Answer 2

Well, they don't work because HTML::link() will output a full HTML link, while your second attempt just uses plain text in the href attribute, so there is no way for Laravel to know that it needs to include something in there.

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You can try this:

 <button href="{{ route('normindex') }}" type="button" class="btn btn-default">Left</button>

The route() helper will print the URL of the route that you pass to it. This will need a named route in your routes.php file, such as:

Route::get('your-path', array('as' => 'normindex', function()
{
   // do stuff
}));