title: Laravel post directly to resource index
body: <p>I have one, hopefully small, issue. I need to be able to post directly to my index. Right now I am using a resource controller:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Route::resource('appointments', 'AppointmentsController');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And I want to be able to update my index view from my resource controller using dropdowns to post values to my index. So I can use those values like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public function index(Request $request)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Up untill this point I was using a different route to post to, and then redirect to my appointments.index route, and so on. But that is silly. I want to still be able to use my resource controller, otherwise I need to create lots of routes (since I am using a bunch of resource controllers and I need to be able to post directly to the index on all of them).</p>
  
  <p>What is the most efficient way to resolve this? I did try to open my form using an url and then add a trailing slash at the end, but that did not do the trick.</p>