I have a edit button: <a href={{ route('edit-category',$category->id) }} >Edit</a> which redirects me to a page where I can edit a category using its ID.

The problem I have is that I am using pagination to view only 5 categories per page and when I am on the edit page I have a Go Back back button which should redirect me back to viewing category. Now the issue is after a few refresh on the edit category page, url()->previous() does not work as intended. Instead of returning back to View Categories it just refreshes and stay on the same page.

I have tried url()->previous(), URL::previous(), JS's history.back() and they all give me the same results which in my case is not what I want to do because as soon as you update a category, the back button will return you back to the same edit page.

Any Idea how I can solve this issue?

Here's my current code...

The button that redirects to the edit page: <a href="{{ route('edit-category',$category->id) }}" >Edit</a>

The route on my CategoryController in web.php Route::get('/edit-category/{id}',[CategoryController::class,'edit'])->name('edit-category');

The button that should be redirecting me back to View Categories: <a href="{{ url()->previous() }}" ><i >arrow_back</i> View Categories</a>

CodePudding user response：

I had somewhat of a similar issue and solved it by using this:

return redirect()->back();

However it is hard to tell you anything specific since you did not post any code.

CodePudding user response：

Not sure what exactly is your situation but you can try the following code as you already know the exact webpage to go with the right parameter :

Route::get('/view-category/{id}',[CategoryController::class,'view'])->name('view-category')
{{ route('view-category',[id]) }}