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I get the error:
Route [books.show] not defined.
Route in web.php:
Route::get('books/{id}', [BooksController::class, 'show'])->name('books.show');
In BookController.php:
public function show($id)
{
$book = Book::find($id);
if ($book === null) {
abort(404, "No book has been found.");
}
return view('books.show', compact('book'));
}
link in index.blade.php:
<a class="btn btn-light m-1" href="{{route('books.show', $book['id'])}}">Read more</a>
About an hour ago this was all still working. I added some functions to the bookController.php (like the update and delete function) and then it stopped working and gives me this error now.
When i type in the url (ex: http://website.test/books/1) i get a blank page.
Does anyone know what i did wrong?
About an hour ago this was all still working. I added some functions to the bookController.php (like the update and delete function) and then it stopped working and gives me this error now.
can you show your whole controller and routes?
run
php artisan route:list
in terminal and you should see what routes are defined.
its possible that you have some clashing in routes.
@robinmvdoorn if what is in your repo is correct, you have duplicated your names for 2 routes. I would suggest you rename one of them and see if that fixes your issue and it may also be worth calling the index books.index as you have used dot notation for your other routes.
Route::get('/', [BooksController::class, 'index'])->name('books');
Route::get('/books', [BooksController::class, 'index'])->name('books');
Show your entire web.php route file.
All my routes:
Route::get('/', [BooksController::class, 'index'])->name('books');
Route::get('/books', [BooksController::class, 'index'])->name('books');
Route::get('books/create', [BooksController::class, 'create'])->name('books.create')->middleware('auth','admin');
Route::post('books/store', [BooksController::class, 'store'])->name('books.store');
Route::get('books/{id}', [BooksController::class, 'show'])->name('books.show');
Route::get('books/{id}/edit', [BooksController::class, 'edit'])->name('books.edit');
Route::patch('books/{id}', [BooksController::class, 'update'])->name('books.update');
Route::get('books/{id}', [BooksController::class, 'destroy'])->name('books.destroy');
Route::post('/books/{book}/comments', [CommentsController::class, 'store'])->name('comments.store');
Route::get('/home', [BooksController::class, 'index'])->name('home');
May be you are under a Middleware like admin or others. Then your Route name will be admin.books.show
Or
Run these commands:
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan route:clear
@nafeeur10 Thanks bro it help my code
@nafeeur10 thanks , it was solution for my problem
@nafeeur10 this one works to my latest route problem
You have there same route more time
Route::get('books/{id}', [BooksController::class, 'destroy'])->name('books.destroy');
Problem is get here, it should be delete
https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/routing#available-router-methods
Route::delete('books/{id}', [BooksController::class, 'destroy'])->name('books.destroy');
By the way you can use resource controllers.
Docs: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/controllers#resource-controllers
And look on this table, it shows you how it should look like
https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/controllers#actions-handled-by-resource-controller
@robinmvdoorn so you are renaming the first books.show route as books.destroy
Route::get('books/{id}', [BooksController::class, 'show'])->name('books.show');
Route::get('books/{id}', [BooksController::class, 'destroy'])->name('books.destroy');
Problem solved ya?
This worked for me, thank you!
this also solved one of my problems i had
You can run just one comment php artisan optimize
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