laravel blade form not routing to a named route - html

Question

I am new to named routing in Laravel 5.5 and I am facing a strange thing while trying to perform an action of a form;
Setups and Explanations:
I set up my routes in web.php
Route::post('questions/save_bulk', 'QuestionsController#save_bulk')->name('save_bulk');
Route::post('questions/store_bulk', 'QuestionsController#store_bulk')->name('store_bulk');
Then I set up store_bulk and save_bulk in QuestionsController:
public function store_bulk(Request $request)
{
//$x = some DB::selects statements;
return view('questions.store_bulk', ['x'=> $x]);
}
public function save_bulk(Request $request){
dd($request);
}
And finally this is my blade form in questions.store_bulk which should lead to QuestionsController.save_bulk:
<form method="post" action="{{route('save_bulk')}}">
{{csrf_field()}}
/* some codes and input fields */
<div class="form-group">
<input type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" value="Submit"/>
</div>
</form>
Problem
The problem is that when I submit this form, instead of taking me to the desired route and perform dd($request), it is just refreshing the page without the inputs I had as if Laravel took the last post form which returned the view questions.store_bulk.
Though this is the exact same way I used to get into the view questions.store_bulk in the first place, a strange thing occurs: when I try to inspect elements in the blade page I get the following:
<form method="post" action="http://127.0.0.1:8000/questions/store_bulk">
/* some codes and inputs */
</form>
in the codes the route should go to QuestionsController.save_bulk but when inspecting the HTML it says it goes to http://127.0.0.1:8000/questions/store_bulk, and if I inspect and change the route manually inside the HTML and write http://127.0.0.1:8000/questions/save_bulk it goes to the right route and perform dd($request).
Question
Why is this happening? am I missing something?
Note
I am using Laravel 5.5 locally on my PC preparing a website.

Answer 1

I've had similar issues with routing.. You can change the url.. e.g. questions/somethingelse/save_bulk.. so the urls won't clash.. Or run php artisan cache:clear or view:clear incase you implemented a page caching system