Use of Any Route in Laravel - Calling same route on submit

In this tutorial, I will give you an example of “How to use any route in laravel 8”, So you can easily apply it with your laravel 5, laravel 6, laravel 7, and laravel 8 application.

First, what we’re doing here, This is the example :

Any Route in Laravel

Sometimes you may need to register a route that responds to multiple HTTP requests. You may do so using the match method.
Or, you may even register a route that responds to all HTTP requests using any method.

How Any Route Works

When we define multiple routes that share the same URI, routes using the get, post methods should be defined before routes using the any, match, and redirect methods. This ensures the incoming request is matched with the correct route or not.

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Route::any('/', function () {
    //
});

Let’s get started.

We will create a blade file and submit the input request parameters in the database table using routes, we need two primary routes for returning a blade file and submitting input parameters to the database.

Basically, we create two routes (get and post) but using any route we can return a blade file and submit form data using a single route.

Generating Migration

At first, we create a new migration file for the “books” table, In your cmd terminal hit the given below command.

 php artisan make:migration create_books_table

Migration Structure

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class CreateBooksTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('books', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('book_name');
            $table->string('book_author');
            $table->string('book_description');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('books');
    }
}

Run Migration

php artisan migrate

Create a Model

php artisan make:model Book

App\Models\Book.php

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Book extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;
}

Create a Controller

php artisan make:controller AnyRouteExampleController

routes\web.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\AnyRouteExampleController;


#Any-Route-Example

Route::any('/any-route-example',[App\Http\Controllers\AnyRouteExampleController::class, 'index'])->name('any.route');

app\Http\Controllers\AnyRouteExampleController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Book;

class AnyRouteExampleController extends Controller
{
    public function index(Request $request){

    $method = $request->method();
    if($request->isMethod('post'))
    {
        $book = new Book();
        $book->book_name   = $request->name;
        $book->book_author = $request->author;
        $book->book_description = $request->description;
        $book->save();
        dd('Data Submitted Successfully.');
    }
        else
        {
            return view('books.create');
        }
    }
}

resources\views\books\create.blade.php

return blade file and form submit using single route in laravel

   <main>
      <div class="container">
         <div class="row justify-content-center">
            <div class="col-lg-6">
               <div class="main">
                  <h3><a>Any Route Example in Laravel.</a></h3>
                  <form role="form" action="{{route('any.route')}}" method="post">
                     @csrf
                     <div class="form-group">
                        <label for="name">Book name <span class="text-danger">*</span></label>
                        <input type="text" name="name" class="form-control" required>
                     </div>
                     <div class="form-group">
                        <label for="author">Book Author<span class="text-danger">*</span></label>
                        <input type="text" name="author" class="form-control" required>
                     </div>
                     <div class="form-group">
                        <label for="description">Book Description <span class="text-danger">*</span></label>
                        <textarea name="description" class="form-control" rows="4" cols="50"></textarea required>
                     </div>
                     <div class="form-group">
                     <button type="submit" class="btn btn btn-secondary">save</button>
                  </form>
               </div>
            </div>
         </div>
      </div>
   </main>

Output :