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While testing our ad entry form.

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We noticed that the entries controller
isn't set up to process posts for

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the entries/add path.

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All MVC controllers inherit
from the controller base class.

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Which provides a property named request
that is of type HTTP request base.

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The request property provides us with
information about the current request.

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Including the HTTP method.

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So, we can add some simple logic to
check if the current request is a post.

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If and then Request.HttpMethod == and

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then POST, all in caps.

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And then let's add an else.

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While this approach would work,
MVC gives us the tools that we need

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to define an action method for
each HTTP verb that we need to support.

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We start by adding a second action method.

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I'll copy and paste the add method.

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A class can't have two methods with
the same name and parameter signature.

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So I'll change the name of
the new method to AddPost.

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But changing the name will keep MVC
from being able to route Post to

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this method for the entries/add path.

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We can fix this by using an attribute.

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Attributes provide a way of associating
information with our C# code.

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Instead of writing programming
instructions using code statements,

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we can simply label or
decorate our code with attributes.

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Attributes can be associated with classes,
properties or methods.

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To associate an attribute with our method,
we simply add a pair of brackets just

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above the method and type the name
of the attribute, ActionName,

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followed by a set of parentheses if the
attribute requires any parameter values.

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The ActionName attribute allows us
to define the name of the action,

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past here as a parameter value that
should be associated with this method.

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We could add another attribute,
HttpPost to indicate that this method

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should only be associated
with post requests.

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There are 2 ways that we could
add multiple attributes.

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We can, stack them up,
like this, or we can list

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multiple attributes inside a single set of
brackets by separating them with commas.

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Let's test our new action method
by putting a break point in

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each add method and running our app.

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Here's the Get request for
the add entry page.

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Press F5 to continue, enter 1/1/2016 for

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the Date field value and
click the Save button.

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And now we're in the add post method.

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Having separate action methods for Get and

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Post requests will help keep our
code clean and more maintainable.

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Go ahead and stop the app.

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If you're using GitHub,
let's commit our changes.

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Enter a commit message of,

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Added EntriesController Add POST
action method.

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And click the Commit All button.

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Next, we'll see how we can use an NPC
feature called Model binding to capture

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our forms post data.