Laravel: "override" request object? - php

Question

I have a function where I save a group. I want to "access" it from the page (when the user makes a new group with a form) and from a controller, too (when a process makes a new group, for example when I create a new tenant)
My code is so far:
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$this->saveGroup($tenantId, 'Default group');
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public function saveGroup(Request $request, $tenantId = 0, $nameFromFunction = ''){
if(!empty($request)){
$name = $request -> name;
} elseif($nameFromFunction != ''){
$name = $nameFromFunction;
} else {
$name = '';
}
if($tenantId > 0 && $name != ''){
$group = new ConversationGroup;
$group -> group_name = $name;
$group -> tenant_id = $tenantId;
$group->save();
}
if($nameFromFunction != ''){
return $group -> id; //if a function calls it
} else {
return redirect("/{$tenantId}/groups"); //if the new group was made from the page
}
}
If I test it with the page's group creation form it works fine, but when I run it from the controller I got the following error:
GroupController::saveGroup() must be an instance of Illuminate\Http\Request, integer given
What I must change if I want to earn this logic?

Answer 1

you could use global request() helper and completely avoid passing Request object to your function, like:
public function saveGroup($tenantId = 0, $nameFromFunction = ''){
//get input named 'name' or default to $nameFromFunction
$name = request('name', $nameFromFunction);
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Answer 2

The reason this is happening, is because in your function definition, first parameter is not $tenantId, but the object of class request.
So you have to pass an object of request class as a first parameter to get this working.

Answer 3

You should try this way,
public function otherFunction()
{
$this->saveGroup(new Request(['name' => 'Default Group']), $tenantID);
OR
$this->saveGroup(new Request(), $tenantID, "Default Group");
}
public function saveGroup(Request $request, $id = 0, $nameFromFunction = '')
{
echo 'here-your-code';
}