Doing what @JordanDalton recommended would be a good idea, however you could also do a hidden form element.

Form::hidden('action', 'edit')

<input type="hidden" name="action" value="edit" />

ok thanks!

but why isnt this working?

Laravel doesn't submit the "submit" button data. This is expected. If you do a datadump of all data included in the input it doesn't come back with it.

echo "<pre>";
dd(Input::all());

You can see all the data that is included with the form submission.

If you use

<input type="submit" name="edit"  value="Bearbeiten" />

instead of

<button type="submit">Bearbeiten</button>

you would get edit=Bearbeiten in the URI as well as in Input::get()

PS: If you however need to insert HTML content inside <button></button>, then you would do as @JordanDalton said, or maybe an A tag is more suitable?

<form action="/test" name="foo" method="get">
    <input type="hidden" name="edit" value='bar' />
    <button type="submit">Submit Text or Image</button>
</form>

AbbyLynn said:

Laravel doesn't submit the "submit" button data. This is expected. If you do a datadump of all data included in the input it doesn't come back with it.

echo "<pre>";
dd(Input::all());

You can see all the data that is included with the form submission.

Thanks a bunch, its working now, but just for my understandig: it makes sense what you wrote, but why is it showing me edit in the URI?

gilganebu said:

AbbyLynn said:

Laravel doesn't submit the "submit" button data. This is expected. If you do a datadump of all data included in the input it doesn't come back with it.

echo "<pre>";
dd(Input::all());

You can see all the data that is included with the form submission.

Thanks a bunch, its working now, but just for my understandig: it makes sense what you wrote, but why is it showing me edit in the URI?

Because you are using GET in your form.

See: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html