redirect using button onclick

Question

I am using the Laravel framework and the blade templating engine.

What I would like to do, is have 2 buttons in my view, when clicked will redirect you to another view. The code I tried was:

 <button type="button" onclick="{{ Redirect::to('users.index') }}">Button</button>

Answer 1

You may try this (assumed this code in in a blade template):

<button type="button" onclick="window.location='{{ url("users/index") }}'">Button</button>

However, {{ url('users/index') }} will print the url so, it'll become something like this in the browser:

<button type="button" onclick="window.location='http://domain.com/users/index'">Button</button>

It means that, you have a route declared something like this:

Route::get('users/index', array('uses' => 'UserController@index', 'as' => 'users.index'));

In this case, may also use:

<button type="button" onclick="window.location='{{ route("users.index") }}'">Button</button>

Out put will be same.

Answer 2

Yeah, you would need to basically use the URL helper to generate the URL (same as just putting something like http://yoursite.com/users instead of the PHP helper):

<button type="button" onclick="window.location='{{ URL::route('users.index'); }}'">Button</button>

Although I don't see why you can't just use an "a href" tag instead of the button, like this:

<a href="{{ URL::route('users.index'); }}">My button</a>