Laravel 5.1 create not working - php

Question

I am new to Laravel 5.1. I'm watching a tutorial video and in video teacher is using this code to insert data in database :
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\comments;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
class CommentController extends Controller
{
public function getCommentNew()
{
$data = array(
'commenter' => 'soheil' ,
'comment ' => 'Test content' ,
'email' => 'soheil#gmail.com' ,
'post_id' => 1 ,
) ;
comments::create( $data );
}
}
I am doing the steps like him but I have a problem , all fields ecept created_at and updated_at will be empty like this :
this is my comments model :
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class comments extends Model
{
protected $fillable = ['commenter,email,post_id,comment,approved'];
public function post(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\posts');
}
}
and this is migration :
<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
class CreateCommentsTable extends Migration
{
public function up()
{
Schema::create('comments', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->unsignedinteger('post_id');
$table->string('commenter') ;
$table->string('email') ;
$table->text('comment') ;
$table->boolean('approved');
$table->timestamps();
});
}
public function down()
{
Schema::drop('comments');
}
}

Answer 1

You haven't properly set the $fillable attribute in your Model, try with :
// in your model
protected $fillable = [
'commenter','email','post_id','comment','approved'
];

Answer 2

You have to define column names saperately on fillable array as shempignon described on above answer
Ex: ['column1', 'column2'...]
not in a single string. Each column name needs to be an array element

Answer 3

Try this and it'll be fine :) , you just forgot protected $table = 'comments';
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class comments extends Model
{
protected $table = 'comments';
protected $fillable = ['commenter','email','post_id','comment','approved'];
public function post(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\posts');
}
}