Laravel 7 redirect issues - laravel

Question

I'm trying to redirect with a message to a view ( notification ) after the form is successfully validated / stored and emailed.
Everything Works as expected but unable to redirect after the email is sent.
Tried redirecting after form validation and it works. But if i call the store() and try to redirect after save() it does not redirect.
I though maybe something was wrong with my store() function so i created an empty function test() and tried redirecting if like this
public function test($request){
Session::flash('message', 'alert-danger');
return Redirect::to('/notifications');
}
public function test(){
Session::flash('message', 'alert-danger');
return Redirect::to('/notifications');
}
It still does not work.
but if redirect from validator() it works fine.
I don't know what is wrong. Please help.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Carbon\Carbon;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator;
use App\Mail\RegistrationMail;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;
use App\Register;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\URL;
use Session;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redirect;
class RegisterController extends Controller
{
protected function store(Request $request){
$length = 16;
$pool = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
$code = substr(str_shuffle(str_repeat($pool, $length)), 0, $length);
$user = new Register();
$user->fname = request('fname');
$user->mname = request('mname');
$user->lname = request('lname');
$user->email = request('email');
$user->kathum_tui = $code;
$user->created = \Carbon::now();
$vfname = request('fname');
$vlname = request('lname');
$vemail = request('email');
$url = URL::temporarySignedRoute('verify', now()->addMinutes(1500), ['fname' => $vfname ,'lname'=> $vlname , 'email'=> $vemail]);
$user->save();
Mail::to($user['email'])->send(new RegistrationMail($user,$url));
Session::flash('message', 'alert-danger');
return Redirect::to('/notifications');
}
protected function validator(Request $request)
{
$validator = Validator::make($request->all(),[
'email' => ['required', 'string', 'email', 'max:255', 'unique:registers'],
]);
if ($validator->fails()) {
$request->validate( [
'fname' => ['required', 'string', 'max:255'],
'mname' => ['nullable','string', 'max:255'],
'lname' => ['required', 'string', 'max:255'],
],
[
'fname.required' => 'First Name Cannot be empty!',
'lname.required' => 'Last Name Cannot be empty!',
'email.unique' => 'You have not completed the Registration. Please check your email to complete the Registration.',
]
);
}else{
$request->validate( [
'fname' => ['required', 'string', 'max:255'],
'mname' => ['nullable','string', 'max:255'],
'lname' => ['required', 'string', 'max:255'],
'email' => ['required', 'string', 'email', 'max:255', 'unique:registers'],
],
[
'fname.required' => 'First Name Cannot be empty!',
'lname.required' => 'Last Name Cannot be empty!',
'email.unique' => 'An account already Exist with this email. Forgot Password',
]
);
$this->store($request);
}
}
}

Answer 1

You should return your store method call in the validator function like as following:
return $this->store($request);