Laravel REST redirect from GET to POST method in SAME controller not working - rest

Question

I am trying to support the use of EITHER GET or POST methods in my REST controller in laravel.
So, I would like to redirect ANY get requests sent to our REST controller to the POST method in the SAME controller instead.
I have tried many things, and now have returned back to basics as follows:
routes.php
Route::resource('user', 'userController');
userController.php
class userController extends \BaseController {
public function index() {
return Redirect::action('userController#store');
}
public function store() {
echo 'yeeha!';
}
}
Performing a POST on the page works and outputs:
yeeha!
Performing a GET on the page produces:
Could not get any response
This seems to be like an error connecting to https://www.test.com/user. The response status was 0.
Check out the W3C XMLHttpRequest Level 2 spec for more details about when this happens.
I have tried many different redirects and none are successful.

Answer 1

The correct way is to do it is to use the routes file and just define it;
Routes.php
Route::get('/user', array ('as' => 'user.index', 'uses' => userController#store))
Route::post('/user', array ('as' => 'user.create', 'uses' => userController#store))
Controller
class userController extends \BaseController {
public function store() {
echo 'yeeha!';
}
}