Get method type of previous url in Laravel

Question

I want to get the method type (POST and PUT) of previous URL in Laravel.

For ex.
I have used Resource routes. So let's assume there are 2 pages Create Product and Edit Product. Both pages contains a form. Once that form is submitted to respected routes (store and update), it calls to index action of Product. So now what I am looking for is to get the method type of previous URL. That means POST for store route and PUT for update route on listing action of Controller.

I tried several ways like
url()->previous()
app('router')->getRoutes()->match(app('request')->create(url()->previous(), 'PUT'))->getName()
and many more but none of them worked for me.

Note: I am developing a package so can't rely on any action of controller. By default index action calls to the package so I want to get this thing in my class.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

You can pass parameter containing information to your index route, LIKE

Let's consider /products as an index route,

you can pass /products?ref_type=POST or /products?ref_type=PUT while redirecting from your CREATE or UPDATE form.

and in your controller, you can get that param like, $request->ref_type or $request['ref_type']

For get request, it will give null so can easily differentiate between the type of requests