laravel throwing MethodNotAllowedHttpException

Question

 I wanted to create a login form and make sure that data is posted successfully by printing it in the next form. But  I am getting this exception:

Symfony \ Component \ HttpKernel \ Exception \ MethodNotAllowedHttpException

My MemberController.php:

    public function index()
    {
        if (Session::has('userToken'))
        {
            /*Retrieve data of user from DB using token & Load view*/
            return View::make('members/profile');
        }else{
            return View::make('members/login');
        }
    }

    public function validateCredentials()
    {
        if(Input::post())
        {
            $email = Input::post('email');
            $password = Input::post('password');
            return "Email: " . $email . " and Password: " . $password;
        }else{
            return View::make('members/login');
        }
    }

The routes has:

Route::get('/', function()
{
    return View::make('hello');
});

Route::get('/members', 'MemberController@index');
Route::get('/validate', 'MemberController@validateCredentials');

The view login.php has this form direction:

<?php echo Form::open(array('action' => 'MemberController@validateCredentials')); ?>

Can someone help me solve this?

Answer 1

The problem is that you are posting to a GET route. The best way to do it would be to split the routing for validate into separate GET and POST routes.

New Routes:

Route::post('validate', 'MemberController@validateCredentials');


Route::get('validate', function () {

    return View::make('members/login');

});

Change your controller method to:

public function validateCredentials()

{

    $email = Input::post('email');

    $password = Input::post('password');

    return "Email: " . $email . " and Password: " . $password;

}

I hope this helps you.