Styjun

On edit.blade.page there is a button for file deleting which leads to the update method in a controller. The update method calls private deleteImage method from which I want to redirect a user back to edit.blade.page, but it redirects me somewhere else.
I have tried all approach from the documentation

Controller

public function update(Request $request, $id)
 ($request['method']==true) ? $this->imageDelete($request, $id) : null;
 

private function imageDelete (Request $request, $id)
 if($request['method']=='destroy')
 $file = public_path().'/storage'.$request['old_image'];

 $validatedData = $request->validate(['images'=> 'string',]);

 $old_images = explode(',', $request['images']);
 $paths = array();
 foreach ($old_images as $old)
 ($old != $request['old_image']) ? $paths[] = $old : null ;
 
 (File::exists($file)) ? File::delete($file) : null;

 Announcement::where('slug', $id)->update(array_merge($validatedData,array('images'=>implode(",",$paths),)));
 return redirect()->route('announcements.edit',[$id])->with('status',1);
 
 return redirect()->route('announcements.edit',[$id])->with('status', 0);
 

Route

Route::resource('announcements', 'AnnouncementController', ['names' => [
 'index' => 'announcements',
 'store' => 'announcements.store',
 'show' => 'announcements.show',
 'destroy'=>'announcements.destroy',
 'update' => 'announcements.update',

 ]])

Just use the route helper with the redirect helper to specify the route name you wish to go to:

return redirect()->route('your.route.name');

Note: This requires you to have named your route e.g.

Route::get('/test', 'SomeController@index')->name('test')

or you can pass the URL directly to redirect.

^{I've generally found that being explicit in what I want my code to do prevents mistakes / unintended side-effects down the line.}

You have 2 good options:

return redirect('/edit');

return view('your.view');

Either should be able to accomplish what you're trying to do.

Alright! It seems like laravel doesn't see the return from other functions rather than predefined by itself.
So the solution, in that case, would be making the return from within the update method

public function update(Request $request, $id)
 return ($request['method']==true) ? $this->imageDelete($request, $id) : null;