Laravel 5.x Cookbook

Building your main search page

In this section, I will start to build the search page. To being with, we will add a search bar, and then I will show how to add a form that uses GET to query the API to get comics once the user clicks Search. In a later recipe we will convert this to Angular.

Getting started…

The previous two recipes got us going with a home page and a message area, and now we are set to add a form to that page and update the controller.

How to do it…

1. First, we are going to give our route a name, so update your routes.php file:
   
2. Now, when you run php artisan route:list, you will see home as a name:
3. Now we will use that route name for our ...