Hi everyone.
My problem is quite complicated (for me). I'm making some kind of blog app. My Posts table/model have quite a lot of fields to fill up during the proces of creation. So. I want to have as clean controllers as possible. For now I have been using something like this:
public function store(PostRequest $request)
{
$post = Post::create($request->all());
// Some response and redirect
}
But there is an issue with that code. With text content it works fine but I've got to upload 2 images too. Now, when I submit the form with these images they show up in database as paths to tmp/ folder (placed by PHP file upload function). Am I supposed to fill up all the fields "manually"? I mean:
$post = new Post();
$post->filed1 = $request->input('field1');
$post->filed2 = $request->input('field2');
// etc... about 12 :( It looks so messy, ugh!
Maybe there is a better way to do this. I also consider how to stucture my galleries/photo uploads. Maybe someone can suggest me anything ("The right way")?
You're going to need to move those images from the tmp/ folder and rename them - if you're on 5.3 take a look at this screencast. I prefer being explicit about what I'm saving to the database rather than just doing $request->all(). You could always extract the post creation logic into a protected method or class if you want to clean up your controller.
There is a video on file upload in 5.3
https://laracasts.com/series/whats-new-in-laravel-5-3/episodes/12
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