laravel 4.1 Form with controller action dosent route to correct route

Question

I have a form which should go to the TestsController Controller and it's takeTest method, this is the code below that generated the form:

{{ Form::open(array('action' => 'TestsController@takeTest')) }}

The generated HTML:

<form method="POST" action="http://192.168.0.8/tests" accept-charset="UTF-8"

The routes declared in routes.php file:

Route::get('tests', 'TestsController@index');
Route::post('tests', 'TestsController@takeTest');
Route::post('tests', 'TestsController@processMarking');

It should go to takeTest method but it goes to the processMarking method instead. Why is this and how can it be fixed?

• Steve: How do you expect it to differentiate between two routes with the same uri and request method?

Answer 1

Because you have declared two routes using same URI/tests and same method (post) like this:

Route::post('tests', 'TestsController@takeTest'); // first
Route::post('tests', 'TestsController@processMarking'); // second

So the second route is overriding the first route. If you change the URI of your second route to something else then it'll work, for example:

Route::post('moretests', 'TestsController@processMarking');

You can't use same URI for two routes using same method (i.e. post in your case).

• Matthew Underwood: I would of thought the Controller action would match against the same one in the routes. Otherwise what is the point of stating a controller action in the form?
• The Alpha: The 'action' => 'TestsController@takeTest' generated action="http://192.168.0.8/tests" URI as action.
• The Alpha: When you have used Form::open(array('action' => 'TestsController@takeTest')) it searched for value in the RouteCollection object and found tests as the key for TestsController@takeTest, that's it.
• Matthew Underwood: Cheers for the explanation and answer.