Laravel Starter - PHP User Group (Myanmar)

Laravel Starter
Laravel's HTML class can be used to create a variety of HTML tags. You might be asking yourself
why you wouldn't simply write the HTML for the link yourself. One very good reason to use
Laravel's HTML helper class is that it provides a unified interface for creating tags that may
need to change dynamically. Let's look at an example to clarify this point.
Let's say that we want that link to look like a button and our designer created a sweet CSS class
named btn. We need to update the call to HTML::link() to include the new class attribute:
{{ HTML::link('users/create', 'Create a User', array('class' =>
'btn')) }}
Actually, we could include any number of attributes to that class and they'd all be handled
appropriately. Any attribute assigned to the HTML elements can be updated dynamically
by passing a variable to that method instead of declaring it inline.
{{ HTML::link('users/create', 'Create a User', $create_link_
attributes) }}
Step 15 – Deleting user records with Eloquent
Now that we can add users, we may want to do a bit of cleanup. Let's add a delete action to
our users controller.
public function get_delete($user_id)
{
$user = User::find($user_id);
if(is_null($user))
{
return Redirect::to('users');
}
$user->delete();
}
return Redirect::to('users');
Now, let's step through this.
public function get_delete($user_id)
This is the first time that we've declared a parameter in a controller action. In order to delete a user,
we need to know which user to delete. Since we have used Route::controller('users') to
have Laravel automatically handle the routing for our controller, it'll know that when we go to the
URL http://myfirst.dev/users/delete/1 it should route to the delete action and pass
additional URI segments as arguments to the method.
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