Laravel - query from database and save to another - php

Question

Welcome! I try to find a solution for my problem but it's hard for fresh laravel user. I try to do some simple booking system. I have 2 tables: schedule, and bids. What I want to do is display schedule table and via "book" button save it to bids table. I know how to query schedule table but I don't know how to write controller to save same data to another table.
Regards and thank you for the help.

Answer 1

You can do it in in the same controller class by adding a new function inside it. Here is the sample code.
class YourController extends Controller
{
public function bookSchedule()
{
//here we are getting the data from the table
$s = Schedule::where('id','=',98)
->select('colomn_1','colomn_2')
->get()
->toArray();
// here we are storing it back to the bids table
Bids::insert($s);
}
Hope the answer has helped you.

Answer 2

first of all you should show some examples of what have you done,
also your database connection file
however you should connect the 2 databases in app/config/database.php like the following
<?php
return array(
'default' => 'mysql',
'connections' => array(
# Our primary database connection
'mysql' => array(
'driver' => 'mysql',
'host' => 'host1',
'database' => 'database1',
'username' => 'user1',
'password' => 'pass1'
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
),
# Our secondary database connection
'mysql2' => array(
'driver' => 'mysql',
'host' => 'host2',
'database' => 'database2',
'username' => 'user2',
'password' => 'pass2'
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
),
),
);
and then in the controller you can chose which database you are talking to
for example $users = DB::connection('mysql2')->select(...);
check the Laravel Documents