Array to string conversion in Orchid Software attachments in Laravel - php

Question

I am trying to attach documents to a model when saving. I am getting array to string conversion erro. Because, it puts the documents Ids in to an array.
Here is my model.
<?php
namespace App\Models;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder;
use Orchid\Screen\AsSource;
use App\Models\Seller;
use Orchid\Attachment\Models\Attachment;
use Orchid\Attachment\Attachable;
use Orchid\Filters\Filterable;
use Orchid\Metrics\Chartable;
use App\Orchid\Presenters\PropertyPresenter;
use Laravel\Scout\Searchable;
class Property extends Model
{
use HasFactory;
use AsSource, Attachable,Filterable;
use Chartable;
/**
* #var array
*/
protected $fillable = [
'property_name',
'property_type',
'property_city',
'property_address',
'property_area',
'seller_id',
'property_cost',
'property_price',
'property_rent_price',
'status',
'contracts',
'images'
];
/**
* Get the parent seller of the property.
*/
public function seller()
{
return $this->belongsTo(Seller::class);
}
/**
* Name of columns to which http sorting can be applied
*
* #var array
*/
protected $allowedSorts = [
'property_name',
'property_type',
'property_city',
'status',
'created_at',
'updated_at'
];
/**
* #param Builder $query
*
* #return Builder
*/
public function scopeActive(Builder $query)
{
return $query->where('status', 'Available');
}
/**
* #param Builder $query
*
* #return Builder
*/
public function scopeStatus(Builder $query)
{
return $query->where('status', '!=', 'Sold');
}
// Many-to-Many (no foreign id on table, should be uploaded with groups() function)
public function documents()
{
return $this->hasMany(Attachment::class)->where('group','contracts');
}
/**
* Get the presenter for the model.
*
* #return PropertyPresenter
*/
public function presenter()
{
return new PropertyPresenter($this);
}
/**
* Get the indexable data array for the model.
*
* #return array
*/
public function toSearchableArray()
{
$array = $this->toArray();
// Customize array...
return $array;
}
}
Here are the form elements
Upload::make('property.contracts')
->title('Documents')
->maxFileSize(2)
->targetId()
->targetRelativeUrl()
->groups('documents')
->acceptedFiles('image/*,application/pdf,.psd'),
And here is the save/update function
/**
* #param Property $property
* #param Request $request
*
* #return \Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse
*/
public function createOrUpdate(Property $property, Request $request)
{
$property->fill($request->get('property'))->save();
$property->attachment()->syncWithoutDetaching(
$request->input('property.contracts', [])
);
Alert::info('You have successfully created an property.');
return redirect()->route('platform.property.list');
}
Finally here is the migration file
/**
* Run the migrations.
*
* #return void
*/
public function up()
{
Schema::create('properties', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->id();
$table->string('property_name');
$table->string('property_type');
$table->string('property_city');
$table->text('property_address');
$table->double('property_area',15,2);
$table->unsignedBigInteger('seller_id');
$table->double('property_cost', 20.3);
$table->double('property_price');
$table->double('property_rent_price')->nullable();
$table->string('contracts')->nullable();
$table->string('images')->nullable();
$table->string('status')->default('Available');
$table->timestamps();
$table->foreign('seller_id')->references('id')->on('sellers');
});
}
It gives the array to string conversion error and here is the request body:
{ "property_name": "Villa02", "property_type": "residential", "property_city": "Garoowe", "property_address": "Test", "property_area": "12000", "seller_id": "1", "property_cost": "43000", "property_price": "50000", "property_rent_price": "300", "status": "Available", "contracts": [ "67" ], "images": "/storage/2022/04/15/e3cbed3acbfec1d40c54aa57aa651a05c80d6586.png" }
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Just unset the array before filling the model
public function createOrUpdate(Property $property, Request $request)
{
$propertyInputs = $request->get('property');
$contacts = $propertyInputs['contracts']??[];
unset($propertyInputs['contracts']);
$property->fill($propertyInputs)->save();
$property->attachment()->syncWithoutDetaching($contacts);
Alert::info('You have successfully created an property.');
return redirect()->route('platform.property.list');
}