Call a simple function from a button in ASP.NET Core (MVC)

Question

I've been looking really hard to answer what I thought would be such a simple question, but how do I call a function from the Controller of a page using an HTML form/button.

The end-goal here is to make an add-to-cart button, but I must firstly figure out how to make a button in the first place.

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This is the most common method I saw people doing:

The function in my controller I want to run is as such:

and then in my Index.cshtml file I have this block of code:

@using (Html.BeginForm("PostTest", "Index", FormMethod.Post))
{
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Test" />
}

and the button shows up as it should,

but when I press it...

It just redirects to a page with the name of the function i'm trying to call instead of actually running it. I clearly have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the buttons work, but this is the answer I keep finding online.

Answer 1

Your url is wrong. It should be

@using (Html.BeginForm("PostTest", "Smoothies", FormMethod.Post))
{
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Test" />
}

Answer 2

Please check your URL, It seems wrong.

Your URL will be "ControllerName/Methodname".

in your case it will "Smothies/PostTest"