Laravel 5.2 belongstoMany in views - php

Question

I'm trying to make a belongstoMany relationship in Laravel 5.2.39 between people and places but am unable to pass the information into a view in a select box. I just get: "Error Exception: Undefined variable: people". It also is not saving and making the pivot table entries.
I have created the pivot table person_place with 'place_id' and 'person_id' columns which correspond to the 'people' and 'places' table.
App/Person.php (Person Model)
<?php
namespace ss;
use ss\Place;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Person extends Model
{
/**
* Fillable fields
*
* #var array
*/
protected $fillable = [
'name',
'type',
'status',
'notes',
'email',
'phone',
'alt',
'web',
'first',
'last',
'title',
];
public function places()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('Place');
}
}
App/Place.php (Place Model)
<?php
namespace ss;
use ss\Person;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Place extends Model
{
/**
* Fillable fields
*
* #var array
*/
protected $fillable = [
'name',
'type',
'status',
'notes',
'email',
'phone',
'alt',
'web',
'address1',
'address2',
'city',
'state',
'zip',
'country',
];
public function people()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('Person');
}
}
App/Http/Controllers/PlaceController.php (Places Controller)
<?php namespace ss\Http\Controllers;
use ss\Place;
use ss\Person;
use ss\Http\Requests;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use View;
use Session;
class PlaceController extends Controller
{
/**
* Display a listing of the resource.
*
* #return Response
*/
public function index()
{
$places = Place::all();
$people = Person::pluck('name','id')->all();
return View::make('places.index', compact('places','people'));
}
/**
* Show the form for creating a new resource.
*
* #return Response
*/
public function create()
{
$people = Person::lists('last', 'id');
return view('places.create', compact('people'));
}
/**
* Store a newly created resource in storage.
*
* #return Response
*/
public function store(Request $request)
{
$this->validate($request, [
'name' => 'required'
]);
$input = $request->all();
Place::create($input);
Session::flash('flash_message', 'Place successfully added!');
return redirect()->action('PlaceController#index');
}
/**
* Display the specified resource.
*
* #param int $id
* #return Response
*/
public function show($id)
{
$place = Place::findOrFail($id);
return view('places.show')->withPlace($place);
}
/**
* Show the form for editing the specified resource.
*
* #param int $id
* #return Response
*/
public function edit($id)
{
$place = Place::findOrFail($id);
$people = Person::pluck('name','id')->all();
return view('places.edit', compact('place','people'));
}
/**
* Update the specified resource in storage.
*
* #param int $id
* #return Response
*/
public function update($id, Request $request)
{
$this->validate($request, [
'name' => 'required'
]);
$input = $request->except('people');
$place = Place::findOrFail($id);
$peopleIDs = $this->place->people($peopleIds);
$place->fill($input)->save();
Session::flash('flash_message', 'Place successfully edited!');
return redirect()->action('PlaceController#index', $place);
}
/**
* Remove the specified resource from storage.
*
* #param int $id
* #return Response
*/
public function destroy($id)
{
$place = Place::findOrFail($id);
$place->delete();
Session::flash('flash_message', 'Place successfully deleted!');
return redirect()->action('PlaceController#index');
}
}
resources/views/places/edit.blade.index.php (Places View, where I'm trying to build select list -not working)
#section('aside')
{!! Form::select('people', $people, null, ['class' => '', 'multiple']) !!}
<ul class="section table-of-contents">
<li>New Time</li>
<li>New Money</li>
<li> </li>
<li>New Sub-Task</li>
</ul>
#endsection
resources/views/places/create.blade.index.php (Places View with a select list that works but does not make a pivot table when saving)
#section('aside')
{!! Form::select('people', $people, null, ['class' => '', 'multiple']) !!}
#endsection
Have tried various methods of "with" and "attach" and am unable to get a result. Interestingly, even if I specifically place "$person = "foo"; in my edit method it still says it is undefined.
Thank you for your help.
EDIT: Updated Code

Answer 1

In the PlacesController, your edit($id) method does not pass an array of people to the view.
/**
* Show the form for editing the specified resource.
*
* #param int $id
* #return Response
*/
public function edit($id)
{
$place = Place::findOrFail($id);
$people = People::pluck('name','id')->all();
return view('places.edit', compact('place', 'people');
}