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PHP Build a REST API with Laravel API Basics & CRUD operations Resource Controllers (CRUD)

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 90,704 Points
Posted by Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 90,704 Points

Regarding the Book update() method

public function update(Request $request, Photo $photo)
    {
        //
        $data = $request->validate([
            "url" => "required",
            "caption" => "required",
            "owner_id" => "required"
        ]);

        //owner->update($data);  - not included in video
        return response( $photo->update($data), 200 );

    }

I'm confused as to why Jonathan (the instructor doesn't include the line that I've commented out at 13 minutes into the video?

Thanks! :-)

Peter Vann
Peter Vann
36,135 Points

I'm also curious why line 34 at 5:55 (in AuthorController.php)

return response(Author::create($data), 201); // 201 Created

differs, syntactically, from line 33 at 13:03 (in BookController.php)

$book = Book::create($data);

(both are the last line of the store function, respectively) ???