Route [login] not defined

Question

Trying to play with Laravel today for the first time. I am getting the following error when I attempt to visit localhost/project/public:

InvalidArgumentException
Route [login] not defined.

app/routes.php:

<?php  Route::get('/', 'HomeController@redirect'); Route::get('login', 'LoginController@show'); Route::post('login', 'LoginController@do'); Route::get('dashboard', 'DashboardController@show'); 

app/controllers/HomeController.php:

<?php  class HomeController extends Controller {      public function redirect()     {         if (Auth::check())              return Redirect::route('dashboard');          return Redirect::route('login');     }  } 

app/controllers/LoginContoller.php:

<?php  class LoginController extends Controller {      public function show()     {         if (Auth::check())              return Redirect::route('dashboard');          return View::make('login');     }      public function do()     {         // do login     }  } 

app/controllers/DashboardController.php:

<?php  class DashboardController extends Controller {      public function show()     {         if (Auth::guest())              return Redirect::route('login');          return View::make('dashboard');     }  } 

Why am I getting this error?

Answer 1

You're trying to redirect to a named route whose name is login, but you have no routes with that name:

Route::post('login', [ 'as' => 'login', 'uses' => 'LoginController@do']); 

The 'as' portion of the second parameter defines the name of the route. The first string parameter defines its route.