Laravel HomeController :: showWelcome（）不起作用

Question

I can get the following line in routes.php file working to see the welcome message:

Route::get('/', 'HomeController@showWelcome');

But the following line does not work:

Route::get('/', function()
{
    return HomeController::showWelcome();
});

And I get the following error in the browser:

Whoops, looks like something went wrong.

What's wrong?

Update: After setting debug to true, I figured out the problem is this:

Non-static method HomeController::showWelcome() should not be called statically

So in the HomeController.php, I change:

public function showWelcome()
{
    return View::make('hello');
}

to:

static public function showWelcome()
{
    return View::make('hello');
}

And the problem was fixed. I'm just not sure if this is the best workaround.

Answer 1

Whoops, looks like something went wrong. 

is default message when you work in production, to know better what is wrong you should turn on debug mode.

You can do this in:

app/config/app.php

by setting:

'debug' => true,

then reload the page to get some info.