Laravel: Cannot route to expected URL

Question

Here is my nav-bar:

 <div class="col-md-2">
        <ul class="list-group-item">
            <li><a href="/posts"><i class="fa fa-fw fa-file</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;All Post</a>
            </li>
            <li><a href="/posts/create"><i class="fa fa-fw fa-plus-circle"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;Create New Post</a></li>
            <li><a href="/posts/manage"><i class="fa fa-fw fa-tasks"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;Manage Posts</a></li>
        </ul>
</div>

and here is my route.php

Route::group(['prefix' => 'posts'], function(){
Route::get('', 'PostController@index');
Route::get('create', 'PostController@create');
Route::post('confirm', 'PostController@confirmation');
Route::get('{postID}', 'PostController@show');
Route::get('posts/manage', 'PostController@manage');});

I expect when I click on the "Manage Posts" button, it will redirect me to function manage() in my PostController .

But when I click on it, it redirects to a view which belongs to storage/framework/views which is show() in my PostController .

I don't know why and how to make it to the right url.

Can somebody help me with this one please?

Thank you.

Answer 1

First of all, your link links to /posts/management , not /posts/manage . Second, you already have the prefix posts for this route-group, so the route posts/manage will be available under the url /posts/posts/manage .

You also want to move the manage route before your {postID} route, because {postID} will just catch anything , so the router has to first check the manage-route, and only if it doesn't match, the catch-all route.

And you should control what is accepted as a valid postID using Route Parameters: Regular Expression Constraints .

Route::get('{postID}', 'PostController@show')->where('id', '[0-9]+');