Laravel named routes returns "Whoops" error

@Ultear What exactly do you mean by "when I want to use profile alias"?

I'm using http://localhost/profile

Then it returns "Whoops"

But do you set the routes in the routes.php file accordingly? Can you show us the content of routes.php file?

Route::get('profile', 'UserController@showProfile');

/* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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 Closure to execute when that URI is requested. | */

Route::get('/', function() { return 'Welcome to index file'; });

Route::get('user/profile', [ 'as' => 'profile', function(){ return 'UserController@showProfile'; } ]);

This is my routes.php @sabuncuserhat i dont want to call controller just return string to see if it works, but it doesnt

Well it won't respond to http://localhost/profile because you haven't set it the right way. Change

Route::get('user/profile', [ 'as' => 'profile', function(){ return 'UserController@showProfile'; } ]);

to

Route::get('profile', [ 'as' => 'profile', function(){ return 'UserController@showProfile'; } ]);

This is not how named routes work, you cannot simply call them inside url. They help you in generating urls for instance:

//somewhere in your view 
<a href="{{route('profile')}}"> profile</a>

This will automatically generate the anchor with href="localhost/user/profile" .

Route::get('profile', function(){ 
    return 'UserController@showProfile'; 
});

@toniperic that works, just one more question

first parameter is url to fire up link in "as" parameter yes?

Further information can be found here: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/routing#named-routes

@usman i've already read this, just tell me one thing

Lets say i've shop controller with show item action, url would look like localhost/shop/showitem/id

What should i do to make it look like

localhost/showitem/id?

Is it part of named routes functionality?

No. You can specify a route like this:

Route::get('showitem/{id}', 'YourController@showItem');

//To get benefits of named routing you can use:
Route::get('showitem/{id}', ['as'=>'item.show','uses'=>'YourController@showItem']);
//Now using the route name you can conveniently generate urls for the 'showitem/{id}' using <a href="{{route('item.show',$item->id)}}">edit</a>.

It is always up to you.

Is "item.show" from "as" parameter tied with someting or you just type there whatever you want and what is most comfortable?

Yeah it is a matter of choice. This way you can differentiate your routes from the others.

@usman Than you for helping :)

@Ultear no problem.