Question

So I have been trying to use the “put” method in my routing, I have followed this example directly from the “routes.php” file:

Route::put('hello/(:any)', function($name)
{
      return "Welcome, $name.";
});

This returns a 404 error, I really want my code to look like below. I want to be able to take to parameters from the url and use them for verification, later on I plan to use an encoding method but for now I just wanted to get the routes working properly before I tried encoding them. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Route::put('admin/activate/(:any?)/(:any?)', function($r, $e) {
     return "Random value: $r <br/> Email: $e";
});

You can find the page here: http://diverseevolution.com/admin/activate/randomstring/[e-mail]

Here is my overall “routes.php” file:

Route::get('/', function() {
     return View::make('homepage.index');
});

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
///////////////        Administration Account Creation & Login        /////////////////////
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// Create account
Route::get('admin/createform', function() {
     return View::make('admin.createform');
});

// action for actual admin creation
Route::post('admin/create', array('before' => 'csrf', function() {
     $rules = array(
          'fname' => 'required|min:3',
          'lname' => 'required|min:3',
          'email' => 'required|email|unique:users',
          'pword' => 'required'
     );

     $validated = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules);

     if($validated -> fails()) {
          return Redirect::to('admin/createform')->with_input();
     } else {
          $r = Hash::make(time() .'ReAl19dk4-^4$'. $_POST['pword']);

          $user = new User;

          $user -> fname = $_POST['fname'];
          $user -> lname = $_POST['lname'];
          $user -> email = $_POST['email'];
          $user -> pword = Hash::make($_POST['pword']);
          $user -> status = 'unactivated';
          $user -> random = $r;

          if($user -> save()) {

               //////////////////////// Email /////////////////////////////////
               // We still need to make this functionality

               $msg = '
               <h1>Your admin account has been created!</h1>
               <p>Congratulations on creating your new account, there is one last step before your account can be activated. Below is a link, simply follow the link to activate your account, once you have your account will be active and you will be able to login!</p>
               <p><a href="http://diverseevolution.com/admin/activate/'. $r .'/'. $_POST['email'] .'">http://diverseevolution.com/admin/activate/'. $r .'/'. $_POST['email'] .'</a></p>
               <p>Thanks, Diverse Evolution</p>
               ';

                    // Mail headers
                    $headers  = "Reply-To: Diverse Evolution <[e-mail]>\r\n"; 
                    $headers .= "Return-Path: Diverse Evolution <[e-mail]>\r\n"; 
                    $headers .= "From: Diverse Evolution <[e-mail]>\r\n"; 
                    $headers .= "Organization: Diverse Evolution\r\n";
                    $headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
                    $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
                    $headers .= "X-Priority: 3\r\n";
                    $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP". phpversion() ."\r\n";
                    define('_headers', $headers);

               if(mail($_POST['email'], 'Diverse Evolution Account Created', $msg, _headers)) {
                    return Redirect::to('admin/thanks');
               } else {

               }
          } else {
               return Redirect::to('admin/createform')->with_input();
          }

     }
}));

// creates the thank you page for the admin account creation
Route::get('admin/thanks', function() {
     return View::make('admin/thanks');
});

// account activation email, this is still not working 011613
Route::put('admin/activate/(:any?)/(:any?)', function($r, $e) {
     return "Random value: $r <br/> Email: $e";
});

// Login form
Route::get('admin/loginform', function() {
     return View::make('admin/loginform');
});

// Login action
Route::post('admin/login', array('before' => 'csrf', function() {
     $rules = array(
          'email' => 'required|email',
          'pword' => 'required'
     );

     $validated = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules);

     if($validated -> fails()) {
          return Redirect::to('admin/loginform')->with_input();
     } else {
          $credentials = array('username' => $_POST['email'], 'password' => $_POST['pword']);

          if (Auth::attempt($credentials)) {
               return Redirect::to('admin/dash');
          } else {
               return Redirect::to('admin/loginform')->with_input();
          }
     }
}));

Route::get('admin/logout', function() {
     Auth::logout();
     return Redirect::to('admin/loginform');
});

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
///////////////////////        Administration Pages        ////////////////////////////////
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Route::group(array('before' => 'auth'), function() {
    Route::get('admin/dash', function() {
        return 'Dashboard';
    });
});















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});

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|       {
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*/

Route::filter('before', function()
{
    // Do stuff before every request to your application...
});

Route::filter('after', function($response)
{
    // Do stuff after every request to your application...
});

Route::filter('csrf', function()
{
    if (Request::forged()) return Response::error('500');
});

Route::filter('auth', function()
{
    if (Auth::guest()) return Redirect::to('admin/loginform');
});

Answer 1

You didnt include your form – but I’m guessing you didnt include a “PUT” in the form.

echo Form::open('user/profile', 'PUT');

You can see more about forms and PUT here. But in general, you need to specifically include PUT in your form, otherwise it will just be POST (browser default).