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PHP Laravel 4 Basics Laravel Controllers Controller Overview

Posted by Young Sam Pinheiro
Young Sam Pinheiro
Courses Plus Student 988 Points

Whats the difference between todos.index and todos/index in the Route function?

On the video, around 04:01, the instructor configures the routes as follows:

Route::get('todos', function() { return View::make('todos/index'); });

Whats the difference between the slash and the dot notation:

return View::make('todos.index'); and return View::make('todos/index');

1 Answer

Christopher Rebacz
Christopher Rebacz
10,904 Points

They are both the same in laravel. The framework allows you to write out the path to views using either a. / or a . It is for user preference. Some people like dot syntax and others find it more readable to use the slashes because it looks like a file path.