Laravel form html with PUT method for PUT routes

Question

I Have this in my routes :

+--------+---------------------------+--------------+---------------------------                                                                                                                ---------+----------------+---------------+
| Domain | URI                       | Name         | Action                                                                                                                                             | Before Filters | After Filters |
+--------+---------------------------+--------------+---------------------------                                                                                                                ---------+----------------+---------------+
|        | GET|HEAD /                |              | postcontroller                                                                                                                                     | auth           |               |
|        | GET|HEAD login            |              | homecontroller@dologin                                                                                                                             |                |               |
|        | POST login                |              | homecontroller@dologin                                                                                                                             |                |               |
|        | GET|HEAD logout           |              | homecontroller@dologout                                                                                                                            |                |               |
|        | GET|HEAD post             | post.index   | postcontroller@index                                                                                                                               |                |               |
|        | GET|HEAD post/create      | post.create  | postcontroller@create                                                                                                                              |                |               |
|        | POST post                 | post.store   | postcontroller@store                                                                                                                               |                |               |
|        | GET|HEAD post/{post}      | post.show    | postcontroller@show                                                                                                                                |                |               |
|        | GET|HEAD post/{post}/edit | post.edit    | postcontroller@edit                                                                                                                                |                |               |
|        | PUT post/{post}           | post.update  | postcontroller@update                                                                                                                              |                |               |
|        | PATCH post/{post}         |              | postcontroller@update                                                                                                                              |                |               |
|        | DELETE post/{post}        | post.destroy | postcontroller@destroy 

Now, I want to make a form html that will use PUT method. Here is my code:

<form class="col-md-12" action="<?php echo URL::to('/');?>/post/<?=$post->postID?>" method="put">
    <div class="form-group">
        <textarea type="text" class="form-control input-lg" placeholder="Text Here" name="post"><?=$post->post?></textarea>
    </div>
    <div class="form-group">
        <button class="btn btn-primary btn-lg btn-block" type="submit" value="Edit">Edit</button>
    </div>
</form>     

But i doesn't work to submit the form into post.edit.

I Have googled and i got solution that i must use

{{form:...etc

But, i want the form still can done by CSS styling. Is there any solution guys? Thank You

Answer 1

You CAN add css clases, and any type of attributes you need to blade template, try this:

{{ Form::open(array('url' => '/', 'method' => 'PUT', 'class'=>'col-md-12')) }}
.... wathever code here
{{ Form::close() }}

If you dont want to go the blade way you can add a hidden input. This is the form Laravel does, any way:

Note: Since HTML forms only support POST and GET, PUT and DELETE methods will be spoofed by automatically adding a _method hidden field to your form. (Laravel docs)

<form class="col-md-12" action="<?php echo URL::to('/');?>/post/<?=$post->postID?>" method="POST">

    <!-- Rendered blade HTML form use this hidden. Dont forget to put the form method to POST -->

    <input name="_method" type="hidden" value="PUT">

    <div class="form-group">
        <textarea type="text" class="form-control input-lg" placeholder="Text Here" name="post"><?=$post->post?></textarea>
    </div>

    <div class="form-group">
        <button class="btn btn-primary btn-lg btn-block" type="submit" value="Edit">Edit</button>
    </div>
</form>