提交Laravel 4的重定向和响应

Question

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!

Answer 1

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'])