Laravel - Inserting related models

Question

I've seen here that there is a more refined way of adding related models.

I've gone ahead and added 'list items' to the Laravel ODOT application, and everything is working pretty well so far. I want to try and swap out this section my current 'STORE' method...

<?php

$content = Input::get('content');
$item = new TodoItem();
$item->content = $content;
$item->todo_list_id = $list_id;
$item->save();

?>

with the following...

<?php

$content = Input::get('content');
$item = new TodoItem(['content' => $content]); //error occurs here 
$list = TodoList::findOrFail($list_id);
$item = $list->listItems()->save($item); 

?>

I've tried to copy the example they give in the Laravel documentation, swapping out comments for items and posts for lists where applicable.

I've narrowed down the error message to this line

<?php

$item = new TodoItem(['content' => $content]);

?>

It simply returns

"Illuminate \ Database \ Eloquent \ MassAssignmentException"

and in larger letters

"Content"

You can see my whole project on github. I'm working on the cascade_item_delete branch.

Kevin Lozandier, with your experience of laravel, can you tell me what I'm doing wrong or give me any pointers?

Answer 1 · 2014-08-05T11:40:30Z

August 5, 2014 11:40am

Hi Tom,

I did some light reading on the subject and it appears to be simple to fix, based on Laravel's docs when using relational models you need to specify what database fields can be used as an mass assignment.

So for instance in your TodoItem model add a protected property called $fillable and assign your content field to it, it should look like the below.

<?php

class TodoItem extends Eloquent {

    protected $fillable = ['content'];

    // ...
}

Hopefully that helps.

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Laravel - Inserting related models

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