Route model binding - use email as slug

@Tenzing remove this line from your RouteServiceProvider and it should work:

$router->model('consumers', 'App\Consumer');

Usman.

@Tenzing You can either manually fetch the model instance in your route service provider using the bind method:

$router->bind('consumers', function($email) {
    return Consumer::whereEmail($email)->firstOrFail();
});

Or if you’re absolutely certain you want to retrieve Consumer model instances by email instead of ID, then you can override the route key name in your model:

class Consumer extends Model
{
    public function getRouteKeyName()
    {
        return 'email';
    }
}

Great. Thanks, I will give that a try.

Ok, so. With some fighting I have gotten here now...

I have removed all model binding from RouteServiceProvider.php

This is my form action; {!! Form::open(['method' => 'GET', 'url' => 'consumers']) !!}

This is in my routes.php Route::resource('consumers', 'ConsumersController'); Route::get('consumers', 'ConsumersController@register');

This is in my ConsumersController.php public function register(Consumer $email) { $consumer = Consumer::where('email', '=', $email)->get();

    return view('consumers.register', compact($consumer));
}

This takes me to the view without error but when inspecting my query I see this; select * from consumers where email = '[]'

An empty array...same thing only with limit 1 appended if I use first();

1/2 way there now...(I will post all the clean code from the solution for others once I get there).

I am now able to return the record associated with the $request->email. This returns an array of the consumers record. Now I want to pass this off to the register view so I can bind the model to the register form. However.

When I do this in my controller;

return view('consumers.register', compact($consumer));

and this in the view;

{{ Form::model($consumer) }}

I get this error:

Undefined variable: consumer (View: C:\xampp\htdocs\mhra\resources\views\consumers\register.blade.php)

I suspect this is because $consumer is an array and not an object?

Is there a way to strip our the consumers $id and pass that around??

WOW!

return view('consumers.register', compact('consumer'));

NOT

return view('consumers.register', compact('$consumer'));

@Tenzing, you had it correct in your example!

Perhaps the 20 straight hours starring right at it weren't enough?? Brutal.

@Tenzing Hehe, the I'll sleep when I'm dead motto :P

Later than sooner here's hopin...

Thanks to all for the assistance and patience. Killer tool, super killer community.

I will post a full solution once I put the fire in my hair out.