Creating a New Route & View In Your Laravel Application

We discussed how the default route and its corresponding welcome view in your Laravel application function.

Now you’re going to define another route & create an associated view on your own.

1. Define a new route

Remember, all routes in a Laravel 5 application are defined in the app/Http/routes.php file.

In the routes file:

1. Use the Route::get to define a new route that you can access at [http://fitl.local/hello](http://fitl.local/new)
2. For that route, load a hello view, that you’ll create in just a second.

2. Create the view

Remember, all view files in a Laravel 5 application are created in the resources/views folder.

Create a new welcome view file (remember, it should end in .blade.php), with some example HTML of your choosing.

Then test out your new page and make sure everything loads up properly!

3. BONUS POINTS (BP) Task: Pass some information to the view

Often, as you know, you’ll need to pass information through to a view — say, an object’s details you retrieved from the database, on a Show Object page.

As you know, to load a view in Laravel, you use the view function, which requires one parameter: a string with the name of the view.

To pass information to the view, you can supply a second parameter: an array that contains all of the information you wish to supply to the view.

Here’s your Bonus Points (BP) task:

Pass a message value through to your hello view, and print out that message within your view file.

You can reference the Laravel Views documentation for more information.

(Note that they use the alternative ['key' => 'value'] array syntax; that’s the same exact thing as the traditional array('key' => 'value').)