Awesome stuff, and loved the tip on the form attribute for buttons!

I didn't know about the form attribute of the button tag. I learned a lot!

That aside, what an ending!

@snapey I think he means his IDE (phpstorm) reports the findOrFail method is not found, not that it won't work if executed.

@Viernes Laravel uses lots of magic behind the scenes that a lot of IDE's can't pick up on.

In phpstorm, make sure you have the laravel plugin installed and enabled. Also, this package will help phpstorm find a lot of the magic that the IDE can't figure out: https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

OK, adding pivot table records (that make sense with the job title!), I did it in DBSeeder like this

        \App\Models\Job::factory(20)->create(); // will make an employer as well for each job

        // create 6 known tags (likely to be present in the 20 fake job titles!)
        \App\Models\Tag::factory()
            ->count(6)
            ->sequence(
                [ 'name' => 'Operator'],
                [ 'name' => 'Manager'],
                [ 'name' => 'Technician'],
                [ 'name' => 'Supervisor'],
                [ 'name' => 'Worker'],
                [ 'name' => 'Support']
            )
            ->create();


        // create job-tag pivot records for any jobs that have a tag name as part of the job title
        foreach (\App\Models\Tag::all() as $tag) {
            foreach (\App\Models\Job::all() as $job) {
                if (str_contains($job->title,$tag->name)) {
                    $job->tags()->attach($tag->id);
                }
            }
        }
    }

i think it is too late, but if somebody will search this solution:

https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/eloquent-factories#sequences

you can just use sequence() method:

$users = User::factory()
                ->count(2)
                ->sequence(
                    ['name' => 'First User'],
                    ['name' => 'Second User'],
                )
                ->create();

@aztec_gold How to seed a pivot table - good question, I am wondering same thing. the job_tag table is created inside the create_tags_table migration sp it will exist once the migrations are run, but there is no model for it... so how to reference in the seeder? And of course need to have some seeder logic to create tags and the associate to job...

Aah, see comment by @bjoernzosel for one way

How do you seed a pivot table?

@Adam_S You can use command + right arrow it will move your cursor to the end of the line :)

@cblack267 HeidiSQL works well, pretty siilar to tableplus, and free! As Jeffrey said, "lots of tools , choose one"