What is the correct way of adding a custom method to a resource controller in Laravel 5.6?
What I have so far is a new method in my ProfileController
:
public function approve($id){
$user = User::find($id);
$user->state = '1';
$user->save();
return redirect('/dashboard')->with('success', 'User approved.');
}
As well as the following lines added to my web.php
file:
Route::post('/profile/{$id}/approve', 'ProfileController@approve');
Route::resource('profile', 'ProfileController');
The form in my view is (afaik) correctly rendered to:
<form method="POST" action="http://myurl.com/profile/10/approve" accept-charset="UTF-8">
<input name="_token" type="hidden" value="v3F1RRhi7iJL2o4egOhcRiuahaGQBwkGkfMal1lh">
<input name="_method" type="hidden" value="PATCH">
<input class="btn btn-success" type="submit" value="Approve User">
</form>
Unfortunately nothing happens, except the "Sorry, the page you are looking for could not be found." page to be shown.
What am I missing? And to expand a bit on this question also, is this even a valid way to implement "single field updates" on a db entry?
Thank you for your help!