Redirecting

With Beets PHP you get a convenient way to redirect the user to a different page using the Redirect class. This is a simple but effective class.

Redirect.php

~/App/Core/Redirect.php

namespace App\Core;

use App\Core\Redirect;

How to redirect

By calling the redirect class you get access to the to() setter that sets the $targetPath property to the target path of the redirect. The class destructor then runs the header() function using $targetPath.

use App\Core\Redirect;

Redirect::to('/users');

This example will redirect the visitor to the /users page.

Redirect with a flash message

If you cascade the to() method with the with() method you can pass along a flash message. This is convenient way to make your code more compact and easy to read. The with() methoid basically just uses the Session::flash()method so you use it in the same way.

The Session class has been included within the Redirect class due to the dependency so you do not need to include it again to just set the flash message.

use App\Core\Redirect;

Redirect::to('/users')->with('message', 'The user was saved!');

To catch the message you get it like normal:

use App\Core\Session;

echo Session::get('message'); // The user was saved!