PagesController pulling up welcome.blade.php

Using Laravel 5.3 and following along with Laracast (https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-5-from-scratch/episodes/4)

In my routes > web.php file:

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Route::get('/', 'PagesController@home');

I used php artisan make:controller PagesController

In my app > Http > Controllers > PagesController.php file:

namespace App\Http\Controllers;


class PagesController extends Controller
{
    public function home() 
    {
        $people = ['Charizard', 'Mewtwo', 'Blastoise'];

        return view('welcome', compact('people'));
    }
}

Yet, when I load my site, I am seeing the content from the welcome.blade.php file:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

        <title>Laravel</title>

        <!-- Fonts -->
        <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Raleway:100,600" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

        <!-- Styles -->
        <style>
            html, body {
                background-color: #fff;
                color: #636b6f;
                font-family: 'Raleway', sans-serif;
                font-weight: 100;
                height: 100vh;
                margin: 0;
            }

            .full-height {
                height: 100vh;
            }

            .flex-center {
                align-items: center;
                display: flex;
                justify-content: center;
            }

            .position-ref {
                position: relative;
            }

            .top-right {
                position: absolute;
                right: 10px;
                top: 18px;
            }

            .content {
                text-align: center;
            }

            .title {
                font-size: 84px;
            }

            .links > a {
                color: #636b6f;
                padding: 0 25px;
                font-size: 12px;
                font-weight: 600;
                letter-spacing: .1rem;
                text-decoration: none;
                text-transform: uppercase;
            }

            .m-b-md {
                margin-bottom: 30px;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div class="flex-center position-ref full-height">
            @if (Route::has('login'))
                <div class="top-right links">
                    <a href="{{ url('/login') }}">Login</a>
                    <a href="{{ url('/register') }}">Register</a>
                </div>
            @endif

            <div class="content">
                <div class="title m-b-md">
                    Laravel
                </div>

                <div class="quote">
                    The PHP Framework for Web Artisans
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

Is there a command or something that I am missing to get web.php to serve up the PagesController.php page instead of welcome.blade.php?

tomopongrac

9 years ago

Level 51

There is no PagesController.php page ... purpose of controller is to return response to your browser which in your case is welcome.blade.php

that is happening with this line of code

return view('welcome', compact('people'));

with code above you return response welcome.blade.php with variable people which you use in your view file

Good start is to read documentation

https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/controllers

sheldonscott

9 years ago

Level 2

There is a PagesController.php page - it is located in app > Http > Controllers.

Regardless, the video I mentioned above skipped a step—it shows passing the $people array to the home function, but he does not show using that data in the welcome.blade.php page. Adding something like this to the welcome.blade.php code will clear that up:

@foreach  ($people as $person)
<li>{{ $person }}</li>
@endforeach

InaniELHoussain

9 years ago

Level 32

@sdurstling its normall in the controller's home method you are telling him to show the welcome.blade.php view

just as your code

@foreach  ($people as $person)
    <li>{{ $person }}</li>
@endforeach

and you'll verify it

abhivachan

9 years ago

Level 2

@sdurstling Check the request life cycle in the below link http://laravel-recipes.com/recipes/52/understanding-the-request-lifecycle

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