Posting front-end form to plugin controller route results in 404

Question

I'm working on a plugin and need a front-end (non CP) form that submits to one of the plugin controllers. Here's my setup:

- plugins
  - portal
    -- PortalPlugin.php
    - controller
      -- Portal_AccessController.php

Portal_AccessController.php

<?php
namespace Craft;

class Portal_AccessController extends BaseController {

    protected $allowAnonymous = true;

    public function actionLogin() {

        echo 'Here';

    }

}

I then created a front-end form by adding a new template directory in /craft/templates:

- pro-portal
  -- index.html

With index.html containing:

<form method="post" action="" accept-charset="UTF-8">
    <input type="hidden" name="action" value="portal/access/login">

    <div>
        <input type="text" maxlength="4">
        <input type="text" maxlength="4">
        <input type="text" maxlength="4">
        <input type="text" maxlength="4">
    </div>
    <a href="{{ actionUrl('portal/access/login') }}">Test me</a>
    <input class="btn submit" type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

Hitting mydomain.com/pro-portal displays the form. On submit it returns to /pro-portal but with a 404 error.

I also tried creating an action link but that also results in a 404 at /index.php/actions/portal/access/login.

I've looked through answers on similar questions and tried all the solutions but no luck. Am I overlooking something? Missing something?

Answer 1

You're getting a 404 because your action method isn't telling Craft what do to after it has echo'd 'Here', so routing continues.

See #3 is that link:

The request doesn’t necessarily end after a controller has been called. The controller may allow it to keep going.

You can redirect, end the request, load up a template to display, etc.

Update:

The controller folder needs to be renamed to controllers.