Laravel update makes new table rule instead of updating - php

Question

I have a company table and an attributes table with all sorts of value in it.
One company hasMany attributes and an attribute belongsTo a company.
Now I have a value inside the attributes table with a 'account_nr_start' (for example, when a new user is added to a company its account_id starts counting up from 1000).
Controller:
public function __construct(Company $company, User $user)
{
if(Auth::user()->usertype_id == 7)
{
$this->company = $company;
}
else
{
$this->company_id = Auth::user()->company_id;
$this->company = $company->Where(function($query)
{
$query->where('id', '=', $this->company_id )
->orWhere('parent_id','=', $this->company_id);
}) ;
}
$this->user = $user;
$this->middleware('auth');
}
public function edit(Company $company, CompaniesController $companies)
{
$companies = $companies->getCompaniesName(Auth::user()->company_id);
$attributes = $company->attributes('company')
->where('attribute', '=', 'account_nr_start')
->get();
foreach ($attributes as $k => $v) {
$nr_start[] = $v->value;
}
return view('company.edit', ['company' => $company, 'id' => 'edit', 'companies' => $companies, 'nr_start' => $nr_start]);
}
public function update(UpdateCompanyRequest $request, $company, Attribute $attributes)
{
$company->fill($request->input())->save();
$attributes->fill($request->only('company_id', 'attribute_nr', 'value'))->save();
return redirect('company');
}
HTML/Blade:
<div class="form-group {{ $errors->has('_nr_') ? 'has-error' : '' }}">
{!! HTML::decode (Form::label('account_nr_start', trans('common.account_nr_start').'<span class="asterisk"> *</span>', ['class' => 'form-label col-sm-3 control-label text-capitalize'])) !!}
<div class="col-sm-6">
{!! Form::text('value', $nr_start[0], ["class"=>"form-control text-uppercase"]) !!}
{!! $errors->first('account_nr_start', '<span class="help-block">:message</span>') !!}
</div>
</div>
When I update a company now, it will upload like the last input here: :
So it makes a new rule, while it needs to edit the current attribute rule instead of making a new rule with an empty company_id/attribute.

Answer 1

If I understand what you are trying to do, I think this will fix your problem. The issue you have is the Attribute model is a new instance of the model rather than retrieving the model you need.
before running fill() from the attributes method try this
$new_attribute = $attributes->where('company_id', '=', $company->id)->where('attribute', '=', 'account_nr_start')->first();
Then run the fill()
$new_attribute->fill($request->only('company_id', 'attribute_nr', 'value'))->save();