Redirecting to view files - laravel

Question

just wanted to firstly note is that this works fine when I have the redirects within their own retrspective functions.
Essentially, I create a Project. Within a Project I can make many types of Documents. Relationships are all set up appropiately.
So within a Project I have links to different documents which can be created. These are like
<li>{!! link_to_route('projects.document.create', 'Some Document', array($project, 'someDocument')) !!}</li>
The route is like this
Route::get('projects/{projects}/document/{name}', array('as' => 'projects.document.create', 'uses' => 'DocumentController#create'));
And then in my DocumentController I do this
public function create(Project $project, $name)
{
$this->redirectResult($project, $name);
}
The redirectResult function essentially checks to see if the selected document (in this case someDocument) has been created before (A project can have many documents, but only one of each type).
If the document has never been created for the project, it shows the create view for that document. If it has been created before it shows the edit view. This is the function
public function redirectResult(Project $project, $name) {
$selectedDoc = Document::where('project_id', '=', $project->id)
->where('name', '=', $name)
->first();
if(!$selectedDoc) {
return View::make($name.'.create', compact('project'));
}
else {
return View::make($name . '.edit', compact('project', 'selectedDoc'));
}
}
Now when I select a document, I end up on a blank page. The url is correct, no errors or anything, simply a blank page. The strange thing is when I do it the old way (which should act the same as the above)
it works. The old way is exactly the same as above, but my create function is like this instead
public function create(Project $project, $name)
{
$selectedDoc = Document::where('project_id', '=', $project->id)
->where('name', '=', $name)
->first();
if(!$selectedDoc) {
return View::make($name.'.create', compact('project'));
}
else {
return View::make($name . '.edit', compact('project', 'selectedDoc'));
}
}
So the only different is that the view making code is directly within the function, rather than calling a function that has this code. I wanted to put all this repeat code in its own function so I do not
have to repeat it for every document controller function.
Is there any reason why my new way takes me to a blank page? Just to rule out the obvious, I do have the folders containing the view files set up correctly. So for the above example within the views folder
I have a folder called someDocument and within it I have edit.blade.php.
Any information as to why this might be occuring appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

Er... you must return the function.
public function create(Project $project, $name)
{
return $this->redirectResult($project, $name);
}