How to make default request values inside $validated array in Laravel? - php

Question

Controller code:
public function store(UserStoreRequest $request) {
$validated = $request->validated();
$validated['user_type_id'] = 2;
$validated['user_gender_id'] = $request->user_gender_id;
$validated['last_login_at'] = Carbon::now();
$validated['password'] = Hash::make($request->password);
User::create($validated);
return to_route('all-users');
}
Is there a better way to do this?
I tried something like this but didn't work:
$validated = $request->validated([
'user_type_id' => 2,
'user_gender_id' => $request->user_gender_id,
'last_login_at' => Carbon::now(),
'password' => Hash::make($request->password),
]);

Answer 1

there is not official laravel way to do this but you could make most of those values default in a migration.
you could also clean up the controller a little bit by doing something like this.
public function store(UserStoreRequest $request) {
User::create([
...$request->validated(),
'user_gender_id' => $request->user_gender_id;
'password' => Hash::make($request->password)
]);
return to_route('all-users');
}
And then for the default values you can do this in your migration
Schema::create('flights', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->foreignId('user_type_id')
->nullable()
->default(2)
->constrained();
});
and then lastly to cast the last_login_at to a now by default you can do that a few ways but using a mutator on the model is probably the best.

Answer 2

I did like this:
User::create([
...$request->validated(),
'last_login_at' => now(),
'user_type_id' => 2,
'password' => Hash::make($request->password)
]);
If you store some images do something like this:
$validated = $request->validated();
if($request->hasFile('photo')) { ..etc
$validated['photo'] = $filename;
}
User::create([
...$validated,
'last_login_at' => Carbon::now(),
'user_type_id' => 2,
'password' => Hash::make($request->password)
]);