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Hi Laravel developers,
I am using Laravel Cashier to take stripe subscription payments from users.
Where is the best place assign setup intent? In route, controller or view?
Here Are My Routes:
Route::get('/plan/{plan}', 'PlanController@show')->name('plans.show');
Route::post('/subscription', 'SubscriptionController@create')->name('subscription.create') ;
Here is my Plan Controller:
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Plan;
class PlanController extends Controller {
public function index() {
$plans = Plan::all();
return view('plans.index', compact('plans'));
}
public function show(Plan $plan, Request $request) {
return view('plans.show', compact('plan'));
}
}
Here is my Subscription Controller:
// SubscriptionController.php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Laravel\Cashier\Billable;
use App\Plan;
use App\User;
class SubscriptionController extends Controller
{
public function __construct() {
Stripe::setApiKey(env('STRIPE_SECRET'));
}
public function create(Request $request, Plan $plan)
{
$plan = Plan::findOrFail($request->get('plan'));
$user = $request->user();
$paymentMethod = $request->paymentMethod;
$paymentMethod = $request->get('stripePaymentMethod'); $plan = 'Your plan in a cae of
subcription'; $user->newSubscription('main', $plan)->create($paymentMethod);
return redirect()->route('home')->with('status', 'Your plan subscribed successfully');
}
}
Here is the form in my view:
<form action="{{ route('subscription.create') }}" method="post" id="payment-form">
@csrf
<div class="form-group">
<div class="card-header">
<label for="card-element">
Enter your credit card information
</label>
</div>
<div class="card-body">
<div style="width: 30em" id="card-element">
<!-- A Stripe Element will be inserted here. -->
</div>
<!-- Used to display form errors. -->
<div id="card-errors" role="alert"></div>
<input type="hidden" name="plan" value="{{ $plan->id }}" />
</div>
</div>
<div class="card-footer">
<button data-secret="{{ $intent->client_secret }}" class="btn btn-dark" type="submit">Pay</button>
</div>
@lamarlaing Just pass it to whatever view the form is on like so...
class SubscriptionController extends Controller
{
public function setupPayment()
{
return view('pages.subscribe', [
'intent' => auth()->user()->createSetupIntent()
]);
}
}
@fylzero now i'm getting this error
Method 'createSetupIntent' not found in \Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable|null
@lamarlaing You either do not have cashier installed correctly or you do not have the Billable trait added to your User model.
Follow the docs...
@fylzero I ran this command
npm -v laravel/cashier
and it returned
6.10.3
Does this mean i'm running the old version of cashier?
@lamarlaing No. Cashier is a Composer package, not a Node package. That is your npm version number. It is ignoring the laravel/cashier part of that command.
Follow the documentation... it's all in there...
composer require laravel/cashier
Make sure to add use Billable to your User model or it will not have access to the intent method.
Ok, I am Using version ^10.5 for laravel/cashier
Here is my user model
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Jenssegers\Mongodb\Eloquent\Model as Eloquent;
use Jenssegers\Mongodb\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Laravel\Cashier\Billable;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth;
class User extends Authenticatable
{
use Billable, Notifiable;
protected $connection = 'mongodb';
/**
* The attributes that are mass assignable.
*
* @var array
*/
protected $fillable = [
'name', 'email', 'username', 'password', 'phone'
];
/**
* The collection name
*
* @var array
* . /
protected $collection = 'users';
/ . **
* The attributes that are mass assignable.
*
* @var array
*/
protected $dates = ['deleted_at'];
/**
* The attributes that should be hidden for arrays.
*
* @var array
*/
protected $hidden = [
'password', 'remember_token',
];
/**
* The attributes that should be cast to native types.
*
* @var array
*/
protected $casts = [
'email_verified_at' => 'datetime',
];
}
@fylzero What do you think?
@lamarlaing Looks good. Post your controller where you're calling createSetupIntent.
@fylzero Ok Here is controller
<?php
// SubscriptionController.php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Plan;
use App\User;
use Laravel\Cashier\Billable;
class SubscriptionController extends Controller
{
public function setupPayment()
{
return view('plans.show', [
'intent' => auth()->user()->createSetupIntent()
]);
}
public function create(Request $request, Plan $plan)
{
$user = User::find(1);
$user->newSubscription('main', 'monthly')->create($paymentMethod);
$user->createAsStripeCustomer();
return redirect()->route('home')->with('success', 'Your plan subscribed successfully');
}
}
@fylzero here are my errors
find() returns error:
Method 'find' not found in \App\User
Create setupintent() returns error:
Method 'createSetupIntent' not found in \Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable|null
createAsStripeCustomer returns error:
Method 'createAsStripeCustomer' not found in
newSubscription returns error:
Method 'newSubscription' not found in
@lamarlaing You don't need the Billable trait in your controller.
Do you actually have the view pages/subscribe.blade php? I put that as an example of where to put the setup intent, you don't need to copy that exactly.
Are you still seeing the same error?
@fylzero I removed Billable trait in controller.
Although I made changes I still get the errors. I do have plans.show here is my route. This is the page the user in their card information.
Route::get('/plan/{plan}', 'PlanController@show')->name('plans.show');
When I submit test payment in browser. This is the error that comes up:
Symfony \ Component \ Debug \ Exception \ FatalThrowableError (E_ERROR)
Call to a member function newSubscription() on null
@lamarlaing This is a different error... It seems like you're hitting issue after issue... and I'm not planning to code this app for you on here.
Your original question has been answered... I would suggest trying to troubleshoot this and ask more narrowed down questions here as needed.
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