laravel passing errors to views through controllers

I am trying to validate in an action within my controller. once it fails, I send the messages resulting from the validator to the other function in the same controller to pass it to the view. The only problem is I don't see anything displaying in the view and the url changes to a weird format once I click submit and errors occurs.

Controller:

<?php class MembersController extends BaseController { protected $layout = 'layouts.master'; public function loadRegisterView($input = null) { if($input == null) return View::make('members.register'); else return View::make('members.register', $input); } public function loadLoginView() { return View::make('members.login'); } public function register() { $rules = array( 'first_name' => 'Required|Min:3|Max:88|Alpha', 'last_name' => 'Required|Min:3|Max:88|Alpha', 'password' => 'Required|Min:3|Max:88|Alpha|Confirmed', 'email' => 'Required|email|unique:users', ); $validator = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules); if ($validator->fails()) { $messages = $validator->messages(); return Redirect::action('MembersController@loadRegisterView', $messages); }else{ return "Thank you!"; } } } 

Routes:

Route::get('login', array('as' => 'login', 'uses' => 'MembersController@loadLoginView')); Route::get('signup', array('as' => 'signup', 'uses' => 'MembersController@loadRegisterView')); Route::get('/', 'MainController@index'); Route::post('processRegistration', array('as' => 'processRegistration', 'uses' => 'MembersController@register')); 

in the View:

@if ( $errors->count() > 0 ) <p>The following errors have occurred:</p> <ul> @foreach( $errors->all() as $message ) <li>{{ $message }}</li> @endforeach </ul> @endif 

and the URL looks like:

http://localhost:8888/store/index.php/signup?%00%2A%00messages%5Bfirst_name%5D%5B0%5D=The+first+name+field+is+required.&%00%2A%00messages%5Blast_name%5D%5B0%5D=The+last+name+field+is+required.&%00%2A%00messages%5Bpassword%5D%5B0%5D=The+password+field+is+required.&%00%2A%00messages%5Bemail%5D%5B0%5D=The+email+field+is+required.&%00%2A%00format=%3Amessage 

Thanks in advance