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PHP

Posted by Brian van Vlymen
Brian van Vlymen
12,637 Points

Which one is property to use Laravel "<a herf" those are couple different ways that I discovery

I have noticed those are different way to prefer to use for "a herf" that I wrote myself on the note. 

<a href="{{{ action('AdminController@getIndex') }}}">HOME</a>

 <p>{{ link_to_route('comments.show', 'Title of the Post', array($comment->id)) }}</p>

 <p>{{link_to_action('PostController@show','Read Blog', array($post->id))}}</p>

<p><a href="{{ URL::action('post-show', $post->slug)}}">Read more</a></p>

<li>{{ HTML::link('posts', 'Add Post') }}</li>

Are those lists are nothing wrong with it because depends on what they prefer to use it?

if I rather to be stronger PHP language would be

<a href="{{{ action('AdminController@getIndex') }}}">HOME</a>

because its almost similarly to 

<a href="<?php ../any_file/any_file ?> ">HOME</a>

so that way I can easier to remember?

1 Answer

thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points
thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

The most robust way to manage links is probably through named routes:

<?php

link_to_route('comments.show', 'Title of the Post', array($comment->id));

If you ever wanted to change action('AdminController@getIndex') to action('AdminController@getHome'), you would have to change every instance of getIndex to getHome - this is not good! If you had a named route, you would just have to change the routes.php file to update your entire applicaiton.