Answer by Big Tree for Laravel 4 how to display flash message in view?

i just realized in using the Redirect::to(), when you use the withInput() method, chaining a with() function to pass variables will not work. the only way is either you flash your inputs separately using Input::flash(), and use the with() to pass your variables or you pass your variable via session using Session::flash('key','val') and retrieve in the view via session::get('key').