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The Routes

Route::get('/adminContacts/{user_id}', 'AdminContactsController@index')->name('adminContacts.index')->middleware('is_admin');
Route::get('/adminContacts/{user_id}/create', 'AdminContactsController@create')->name('adminContacts.create')->middleware('is_admin');


adminContactController

public function index($user_id)

{

    // Confirm User exists

    User::findOrFail($user_id);



    $filter = request('filter', NULL);

    $contacts = NULL;



    if ($filter == NULL)

        $contacts = Contacts::query()->where('owner_id', $user_id)->sortable()->paginate(5);

    else

    $contacts = Contacts::query()->where('owner_id', $user_id)->where('name', 'like', '%'.$filter.'%')

                                 ->orWhere('number', 'like', '%'.$filter.'%')

                                 ->sortable()->paginate(5);



    return view('adminContacts.index')->withContacts($contacts)->withUserId($user_id);

}



/**

 * Show the form for creating a new resource.

 *

 * @return IlluminateHttpResponse

 */

public function create($user_id)

{

    return view('adminContacts.create')->withUserId($user_id);

}

index.blade.php

<div class="container">

    <h1 class="jumbotron">Sample Phone Book</h1>



    <a href="{{ route('adminContacts.create', ['user_id' => $user_id] ) }}" class="btn btn-primary btn-block" style="margin-bottom: 5px">Add Contact</a>

</div>



<!--Search Field -->

<div class="container">

    <form method="GET" action="{{ route('adminContacts.index') }}">

        <input type="text" name='filter' class='input' placeholder='Search' value="{{ request('filter') }}">

            @if (request('filter'))

                <a class="btn btn-primary btn-sm" href="{{ route('adminContacts.index') }}">X</a>

            @endif

    </form>

</div>



<!-- Table -->

<div class="container">

    <div class="row" >

        <table class="table table-hover" id="contactsTable">

            <thead>

                <tr>

                    <th>#</th>

                    <th>@sortablelink('name', 'Contact Name')</th>

                    <th>@sortablelink('number', 'Phone Number')</th>

                    <th>

                        <button class="btn btn-primary btn-sm">Prepend</button>

                    </th>

                </tr>

            </thead>



        <!--Loop through all the cutomers and output them on the table-->

        @foreach($contacts as $contact)

            <tbody>

                <tr>

                    <td>{{ $contact->id }}</td>

                    <td>{{ $contact->name }}</td>

                    <td>{{ $contact->number }}</td> 

                    <td>

                        <a href="{{ route('adminContacts.edit', $contact->id) }}" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm">View</a>   

                    </td>

                </tr>

            </tbody>

        @endforeach

        </table>



        {!! $contacts->appends(Request::except('page'))->render() !!}

    </div>  

</div>

The error is:
Undefined variable: user_id (View: D:laragonwwwSampleContactsresourcesviewsadminContactsindex.blade.php)

Am I missing something? The idea is to pass the $user_id to the adminContact.create form where i can use it to set
$contact->owner_id = $user_id;
so the entered contact apears under that users table.

I don't think you can pass variables into your view like you're doing now.

In your controller, try changing this line:

return view('adminContacts.index')->withContacts($contacts)->withUserId($user_id);

To this:

return view('adminContacts.index')->with('contacts', $contacts)->with('user_id', $user_id);

You could explicitly name the variable when passing it to the view, either this way

return view('adminContacts.index')->with('user_id', $user_id);

Or

return view('adminContract.index', compact('user_id'));

I'm not sure what the name of the variable becomes when passed to the view via withUserId, but I'm guessing this is the issue.

Found the problem.

@extends('layouts.app')



@section('content')



<div class="container">

    <h1 class="jumbotron">Sample Phone Book</h1>



    <a href="{{ route('adminContacts.create', ['user_id' => $user_id] ) }}" class="btn btn-primary btn-block" style="margin-bottom: 5px">Add Contact</a>

</div>



<!--Search Field -->

<div class="container">

    <form method="GET" action="{{ route('adminContacts.index', $user_id) }}">

        <input type="text" name='filter' class='input' placeholder='Search' value="{{ request('filter') }}">

            @if (request('filter'))

                <a class="btn btn-primary btn-sm" href="{{ route('adminContacts.index',  $user_id) }}">X</a>

            @endif

    </form>

</div>



<!-- Table -->

<div class="container">

    <div class="row" >

        <table class="table table-hover" id="contactsTable">

            <thead>

                <tr>

                    <th>#</th>

                    <th>@sortablelink('name', 'Contact Name')</th>

                    <th>@sortablelink('number', 'Phone Number')</th>

                    <th>

                        <button class="btn btn-primary btn-sm">Prepend</button>

                    </th>

                </tr>

            </thead>



        <!--Loop through all the cutomers and output them on the table-->

        @foreach($contacts as $contact)

            <tbody>

                <tr>

                    <td>{{ $contact->id }}</td>

                    <td>{{ $contact->name }}</td>

                    <td>{{ $contact->number }}</td> 

                    <td>

                        <a href="{{ route('adminContacts.edit', $contact->id) }}" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm">View</a>   

                    </td>

                </tr>

            </tbody>

        @endforeach

        </table>



        {!! $contacts->appends(Request::except('page'))->render() !!}

    </div>  

</div>



@endsection

Anywhere where there is a {{ route('adminContacts.index') }} it also needed the $user_id to be passed along with it because I'm also using it in the routes as '/adminContacts/{user_id}'

Thank you for all the help.