laravel - blank page generated on call to view

Question

I have the following routes:

       <?php
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Application Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register all of the routes for an application.
| It's a breeze. Simply tell Laravel the URIs it should respond to
| and give it the controller to call when that URI is requested.
|
*/
Route::get('/', 'PagesController@index');
Route::get('item', 'ItemController@index');
Route::get('item/create', 'ItemController@create');
Route::get('item/{id}', 'ItemController@show');

Route::get('welcome', function() {
    return view('welcome');
});
Route::group(['middleware' => 'web'], function () {
    Route::auth();

    Route::get('/home', 'HomeController@index');
});

And this is what my Item controller looks like:

@section('content');
<h1>Add a  new item</h1>
<hr />
<content>
    <div class="form-group">
    {!! Form::open() !!}
        {!! Form::label('name', "Name") !!}
        {!! Form::text('name', null, ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}
    {!! Form::close() !!}
</content>

@stopttp\\Requests;

use App\Item;
class ItemController extends Controller
{
public function index()
{
    //fetch all items from the database
    $items = Item::All();
    return $items;
}

public function show($id) {

    $item = Item::FindOrFail($id);
}

public function create() {
    return view::make('item.create');
}

}

create.blade.phpHere is my view located at /resources/views/item/create.blade.php: @section('content');

Add a new item

---

{!! Form::open() !!} {!! Form::label('name', "Name") !!} {!! Form::text('name', null, ['class' => 'form-control']) !!} {!! Form::close() !!} @stop

I am trying to load a item creation method for this laravel based e-commerce I am building. I can't seem to access the item.create view when I visit the route in the specified page, just a blank page when I load the view; I do not see the view's HTML. Any help, please?

Heres a copy of my log files:

 [2016-04-19 17:44:41] local.ERROR: exception 'InvalidArgumentException' with message 'View [articles.create] not found.' in /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/FileViewFinder.php:137 Stack trace: #0 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/FileViewFinder.php(79): Illuminate\\View\\FileViewFinder->findInPaths('articles.create', Array) #1 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Factory.php(165): Illuminate\\View\\FileViewFinder->find('articles.create') #2 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/helpers.php(783): Illuminate\\View\\Factory->make('articles.create', Array, Array) #3 /home/thomas/ushop/app/Http/Controllers/ItemController.php(25): view('articles.create') #4 [internal function]: App\\Http\\Controllers\\ItemController->create() #5 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php(80): call_user_func_array(Array, Array) #6 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php(146): Illuminate\\Routing\\Controller->callAction('create', Array) #7 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php(94): Illuminate\\Routing\\ControllerDispatcher->call(Object(App\\Http\\Controllers\\ItemController), Object(Illuminate\\Routing\\Route), 'create') #8 [internal function]: Illuminate\\Routing\\ControllerDispatcher->Illuminate\\Routing\\{closure}(Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #9 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Pipeline.php(52): call_user_func(Object(Closure), Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #10 [internal function]: Illuminate\\Routing\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Routing\\{closure}(Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #11 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(103): call_user_func(Object(Closure), Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #12 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php(96): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->then(Object(Closure)) #13 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php(54): Illuminate\\Routing\\ControllerDispatcher->callWithinStack(Object(App\\Http\\Controllers\\ItemController), Object(Illuminate\\Routing\\Route), Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request), 'create') #14 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php(174): Illuminate\\Routing\\ControllerDispatcher->dispatch(Object(Illuminate\\Routing\\Route), Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request), 'App\\Http\\Contro...', 'create') #15 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php(140): Illuminate\\Routing\\Route->runController(Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #16 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php(724): Illuminate\\Routing\\Route->run(Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #17 [internal function]: Illuminate\\Routing\\Router->Illuminate\\Routing\\{closure}(Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #18 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Pipeline.php(52): call_user_func(Object(Closure), Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #19 [internal function]: Illuminate\\Routing\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Routing\\{closure}(Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #20 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(103): call_user_func(Object(Closure), Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #21 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php(726): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->then(Object(Closure)) #22 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php(699): Illuminate\\Routing\\Router->runRouteWithinStack(Object(Illuminate\\Routing\\Route), Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #23 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php(675): Illuminate\\Routing\\Router->dispatchToRoute(Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #24 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Kernel.php(246): Illuminate\\Routing\\Router->dispatch(Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #25 [internal function]: Illuminate\\Foundation\\Http\\Kernel->Illuminate\\Foundation\\Http\\{closure}(Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #26 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Pipeline.php(52): call_user_func(Object(Closure), Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #27 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Middleware/CheckForMaintenanceMode.php(44): Illuminate\\Routing\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Routing\\{closure}(Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #28 [internal function]: Illuminate\\Foundation\\Http\\Middleware\\CheckForMaintenanceMode->handle(Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request), Object(Closure)) #29 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(124): call_user_func_array(Array, Array) #30 [internal function]: Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Pipeline\\{closure}(Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #31 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Pipeline.php(32): call_user_func(Object(Closure), Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #32 [internal function]: Illuminate\\Routing\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Routing\\{closure}(Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #33 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(103): call_user_func(Object(Closure), Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #34 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Kernel.php(132): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->then(Object(Closure)) #35 /home/thomas/ushop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Kernel.php(99): Illuminate\\Foundation\\Http\\Kernel->sendRequestThroughRouter(Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #36 /home/thomas/ushop/public/index.php(54): Illuminate\\Foundation\\Http\\Kernel->handle(Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request)) #37 {main} 

Answer 1

1. You said return view::make('item.create'); , it should be return View::make('item.create'); or return view('item.create');

2. Logs and code are saying different things. Logs talk about a View [articles.create] not found, your code talks about a item.create View. Are you sure you pointing to the correct route <=> controller ? Maybe try to clear cache

Answer 2

Either you changed the view or you have a spelling error. The log says 'articles.create' not found and it really seems that you don't have that. In your case it's item.create.

If it's a spelling error, use item .create and not item s .

Answer 3

because of laravel cache:clear cant remove views cache file , you should delete them by yourself . go to storage -> framework -> views then remove all generated files manually