Laravel 5 storing empty row in database? - php

Question

I'm currently working on a simple blog system for my website, I'm using Laravel 5.5 for this, but I'm having a problem. Whenever I create a new article using the form I created, it is storing a empty row in my database instead of the data from the form...
This is my function to store a article:
public function newsStore()
{
$input = Request::all();
Article::create($input);
return $input;
}
According to the tutorial that I'm following should this do the trick.. This is the form that I'm currently using:
{!! Form::open(['url' => 'news']) !!}
<!-- Article Title -->
<div class="form-group row">
{!! Form::label('title', 'Title:', ['class' => 'col-2 col-form-label']) !!}
<div class="col-10">
{!! Form::text('title', null, ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}
</div>
</div>
<!-- Article Description -->
<div class="form-group row">
{!! Form::label('description', 'Description:', ['class' => 'col-2 col-form-label']) !!}
<div class="col-10">
{!! Form::text('description', null, ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}
</div>
</div>
<!-- Article Excerpt -->
<div class="form-group row">
{!! Form::label('excerpt', 'Excerpt:', ['class' => 'col-2 col-form-label']) !!}
<div class="col-10">
{!! Form::text('excerpt', null, ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}
</div>
</div>
<!-- Article Image -->
<div class="form-group row">
{!! Form::label('image', 'Image:', ['class' => 'col-2 col-form-label']) !!}
<div class="col-10">
{!! Form::file('image') !!}
</div>
</div>
<!-- Article Message -->
<div class="form-group row">
{!! Form::label('message', 'Message:', ['class' => 'col-2 col-form-label']) !!}
<div class="col-10">
{!! Form::textarea('message', null, ['class' => 'form-control', 'rows' => '7']) !!}
</div>
</div>
<!-- Article Submit -->
<div class="form-group">
{!! Form::button('Add Article', ['class' => 'btn btn-primary waves-effect waves-light float-right', 'type' => 'submit']); !!}
</div>
{!! Form::close() !!}
This is the route I'm using:
Route::post('news', 'DashboardController#newsStore'); // The articles store route
This is my model:
class Article extends Model
{
protected $fillable = [
'title',
'description',
'excerpt',
'image',
'body',
'published_at'
];
}
I have done this once before and have tried to redo it all but can't seem to figure out what is going wrong.
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

To make create() work make sure you're using columns with same names. For example, if your column name is title, you need to use title instead of news-title in the form too:
{!! Form::text('title', null, ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}

Answer 2

As you use this Article::create(); it means all your input names should be same as table column name.
Ex:
<input name="title" ... same be same to column call news-title in respective table
If not same
Use Query Builder
DB::table('table_name')->insert(
[
'name' => $input->news-title
.....
]
);
Read More about Hyphens in column names in MySQL DB