Laravel Testing User::store() with phpunit - laravel-4

Question

I'm learning both Laravel and UnitTesting at the moment, so this may be a stupid question.
I'm getting stuck on how to best test the controller function below:
UserController:
public function store()
{
$input = Input::all();
$user = new User($input);
if( ! $user->save()){
return Redirect::back()->withInput()->withErrors($user->getErrors());
}
return Redirect::to('/user');
}
here's the test as I have it so far:
/**
* #dataProvider providerTestUserStoreAddsUsersCorrectly
*/
public function testUserStoreAddsUsersCorrectly($first_name, $last_name, $email, $password)
{
$response = $this->call('POST', 'user', array('first_name'=>$first_name, 'last_name'=>$last_name, 'email'=>$email, 'password'=>$password));
}
public function providerTestUserStoreAddsUsersCorrectly(){
return array(
array("FirstName", "LastName", "Email#add.com", "pass1234")
);
}
This is actually working and adding the user to the db correctly, but I'm not sure how to test the output / what assertions to use as the response should be to add the user to the db and to redirect to the /user page.
How do I finish this test?

Answer 1

If you need to check success status then you can simply send status code from your controller
and check status in test
public function store()
{
$input = Input::all();
$user = new User($input);
if( !$user->save() ){
return array("status"=>'failed');
}
return array("status"=>'success');
}
public function testUserStoreAddsUsersCorrectly($first_name, $last_name, $email, $password)
{
$requested_arr = [
'first_name' => $first_name,
'last_name' => $last_name,
'email' => $email,
'password' => $password
];
$response = $this->call('POST', 'user', $requested_arr);
$data = json_decode($response ->getContent(), true);
if ($data['status']) {
$this->assertTrue(true);
} else {
$this->assertTrue(false);
}
}