laravel form post issue

Question

I am building a practice app with the `Laravel` framework I built a form in one of the views which is set to post to the same view itself but when I hit submit the form is posted however I do not get the desired output, I see the original view again. Here is my view index.blade.php ``` @extends('master') @section('container')

{{ Form::open(array('url' => '/', 'method' => 'post')) }} {{ Form::text('url') }} {{ Form::text('valid') }} {{ Form::submit('shorten') }} {{ Form::close() }}

@stop ``` and my routes.php ``` Route::get('/', function() { return View::make('index'); }); Route::post('/', function() { return 'successfull'; }); ``` What I've tried so far I tried changing the post to a different view and it worked. However I want the form to post to the same view itself. Instead of returning a string I tried to return make a view still it didn't work. What am I doing wrong? addendum I see that when the form is making the post request I am ge…

Accepted Answer

```
{{ Form::open(array('url' => ' ', 'method' => 'post')) }}
```

Passing a space as the url has worked for me.

laravel form post issue

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