Gathering form input to display on another page

After a user submits a form, we need to be able to take that information and pass it to another page. This recipe shows how we can use Laravel's built-in methods to handle our POST data.

Getting ready

We'll need the simple form set up from the Creating a simple form section.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to complete this recipe:

1. Create a route to handle the POST data from the form:

   Route::post('userform', function()
   {
       // Process the data here
       return Redirect::to('userresults')-
           >withInput(Input::only('username', 'color'));
   });
   

2. Create a route to redirect to, and to display the data:

   Route::get('userresults', function()
   {
       return 'Your username is: ' . Input::old('username')
           . '<br>Your favorite color is: '
           . Input::old('color');
   });
   

How it works...

In our simple form, we're POSTing the data back to the same URL, so we need to create a route that accepts POST using the same path. This is where we would...