We'll need the simple form set up from the Creating a simple form section.

Follow these steps to complete this recipe:

In our simple form, we're POSTing the data back to the same URL, so we need to create a route that accepts POST using the same path. This is where we would do any processing of the data, including saving to a database or validating the input.

In this case, we simply want to pass the data to the next page. There are a number of ways to accomplish this. For example, we could use the Input class's flashOnly() method:

Route::post('userform', function()
{
    Input::flashOnly('username', 'color');
    return Redirect::to('userresults');
});

However, we're using a shortcut that Laravel provides, and only passing along two of the three form fields we asked for.

On the next page, we use Input::old() to display the flashed input.