Laravel redirect to named route
return redirect()->route('home');Laravel offers an easy way to redirect a user to a specific page. By using the redirect() helper you can easily create a redirect like the following:
return redirect('/home');
This will redirect the user to the /home page of your app. But let's say that you had a named route inside of your routes/web.php, like this:
Route::get('home', 'HomeController@index')->name('home');
If you have a named route, you can easily create a redirect, like so:
return redirect()->route('home');
Now, if you ever change the home route to go to the / page instead of the /home URL, you can update the route:
Route::get('/', 'HomeController@index')->name('home');
And the redirect()->route('home');, will still work; however, the redirect('/home') redirect will no longer work. That's the power of using named routes. You can change the actual URL of the route and your redirects will still work.
Here is what the above code is doing:
1. First, it checks if the user is logged in (if not, it redirects to the login page).
2. If the user is logged in, it checks if the user has verified his email (if not, it redirects to the verification page).
3. If
