Redirect to external URL with return in laravel
You should be able to redirect to the url like this
return Redirect::to($url);
For Laravel 5.x and above
return redirect()->away('https://www.google.com');as stated in the docs:
Sometimes you may need to redirect to a domain outside of yourapplication. You may do so by calling the away method, which creates aRedirectResponse without any additional URL encoding, validation, orverification:
Define the url you want to redirect in $url
Then just use
return Redirect::away($url);If you want to redirect inside your views use
return Redirect::to($url);Read more about Redirect here
Update 1 :
Here is the simple example
return Redirect::to('http://www.google.com');Update 2 :
As the Questioner wants to return in the same page
$triggersms = file_get_contents('http://www.cloud.smsindiahub.in/vendorsms/pushsms.aspx?user=efg&password=abcd&msisdn=9197xxx2&sid=MYID&msg=Hello');return $triggersms;