Hi All,
I am electing not ot use eloquent for this project and im new to OOP so im having a hard time understanding when i should be working with an object and when with arrays.
I am testing my web api service to create a new user but having some difficulty saving to my database. I know that if i use PDO i can create an insert statement and write my Request $request fields to an array and easily bind it and insert it in my model function insert($userOptions), but why would i then create a new model in my controller just to convert it to an array after? Can i write objects to my databse without eloquent?
Sorry for the confusion, im a noob!
Model
<?PHP
namespace App\Models;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Laravel\Passport\HasApiTokens;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;
class User extends Authenticatable
{
use HasApiTokens, Notifiable;
public $id;
public $first_name;
public $last_name;
public $email;
public $alerts;
public $status;
public $client_id;
public $password;
public function insert($user){
DB::table('users')->insert($user); //this will not work because $user is an object
return $user;
}
}
Controller
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers\API;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Controllers\API\BaseController as BaseController;
use App\Models\User;
use Validator;
class UserController extends BaseController
{
/**
* Register api
*
* @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
*/
public function register(Request $request)
{
$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
'first_name' => 'string|required',
'last_name' => 'string|required',
'client_id' => '',
'email' => 'required|email',
'password' => 'required',
'c_password' => 'required|same:password',
]);
if($validator->fails()){
return $this->sendError('Validation Error.', $validator->errors());
}
$data = $request->only('first_name','last_name','client_id','email','password');
$user = new User; //create a user model, whats the point if i just build it as an array and pass to my insert function ?
$user->first_name = $data['first_name'];
$user->last_name = $data['last_name'];
$user->client_id = $data['client_id'];
$user->email = $data['email'];
$user->password = bcrypt($data['password']);
$user->insert($user); //call insert function in my model passing the user
return $this->sendResponse($user, 'User created.');
}
}
