Getting ID of uploaded file

You can use insertGetId method to get autoincrement Id when you insert a record.

Ah, that looks interesting. Now how do I use it in my case? Because I need to get this ID ideally in controller ( in my models I am using Eloquent btw, not a query builder)

usually the image record would have the foreign key to the article id.

When you insert your image you must get the id. I dont know how you organize your code. I suppose you have a function somewhere to insert this image. Just return the id to set it as parameter for article insert. All Query builder methods can be used on Eloquent models, so you can use inserGetId, but you also have the id in object returned by save or create method on model.

Thank you guys for your time. Well it looks like this.

//Controller

public function addNewArticle() 
    {
      //getting article article
    $data = array (
    'title'=> Input::get('title'),
    'content'=> Input::get('content'),
    'image_id'=> I NEED TO GET THIS SOMEHOW :)

    );

    //getting the name of uploaded image
    $name = Input::file('image')->getClientOriginalName();

    //move the uploaded image
    Input::file('image')->move('images', $name.rand(4,10).'.jpg');

    //getting image data from article
    $imagedata = array (
    'name'=> $name,
    'url'=> $name
    );

    
    //saving image data into Image eloquent model
    Image::insertImage($imagedata);
    
    //saving article data into Article eloquent model
    Article::insertArticle($data)

    return Redirect::to('admin')->with('message','Article was added successfully');
}

Article model

class Article extends Eloquent {
   protected $fillable = array('title','content');

public $timestamps = true;

public function image()
{
    return $this->belongsTo('Image');
}

// ziskame data z databaze
public static function getData()
{
    $articles = Article::orderBy('id','DESC')->get();

    return $articles;
}

// inserting a new article into database
public static function insertArticle($data)
{
    $article = new Article;
    $article->fill($data);
    $article->save();
}

// Image Model

class Image extends Eloquent {
    protected $fillable = array('url','name');

    public $timestamps = true;


public function article()
{
    return $this->hasMany('Article');
}

    public static function insertImage($imagedata)
{

    inserting the image into database
    $image = new Image;
    $image->fill($imagedata);
    $image->save();
}

@Mikaelo In your controller :

public function addNewArticle() 
    {

    //getting the name of uploaded image
    $name = Input::file('image')->getClientOriginalName();

    //move the uploaded image
    Input::file('image')->move('images', $name.rand(4,10).'.jpg');

    //getting image data from article
    $imagedata = array (
    'name'=> $name,
    'url'=> $name
    );
    
    //saving image data into Image eloquent model
    $image_id = Image::insertImage($imagedata);

    //getting article article
    $data = array (
        'title'=> Input::get('title'),
        'content'=> Input::get('content'),
        'image_id'=> $image_id)
    );

    //saving article data into Article eloquent model
    Article::insertArticle($data)

    return Redirect::to('admin')->with('message','Article was added successfully');
}

And in image model :

class Image extends Eloquent {
    protected $fillable = array('url','name');

    public $timestamps = true;


public function article()
{
    return $this->hasMany('Article');
}

    public static function insertImage($imagedata)
{

    $image = new Image;
    $image->fill($imagedata);
    $image->save();
    return $image->id;
}

bestmomo: I just figured it out by myself, but thank you ;)

@Mikaelo if all works it's perfect ;)