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Redirect and Response on submit Laravel 4

I need a file to download when a form is submitted, however I also want to have the page redirect back to the form with a "form submitted" message.

Obviously something like this wont work:

    return Redirect::to('form')->with('sent', true);
    $downloadLink = base_path().'/something.pdf';
    return Response::download($downloadLink);

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

Solution

  • Try this

    $data = array('sent' => true, 'downloadlink' => $downloadlink);
return Redirect::to('form')->with('data', $data);

    if JSON:

    return Response::json(['sent' => true, 'data' => $data']);

    to access data in view:

    var_dump($data['sent']), var_dump($data['downloadlink'])