Laravel 4 Creating Form for adding record with relationship - php

Question

I have created very basic Model. I have persons table and emails table.
Also I have create a link in the persons/show.blade.php ("Add mail").
My models are
class Person extends Eloquent {
protected $table = 'persons';
public function email()
{
return $this->HasMany('Email');
}
}
and
class Email extends Eloquent {
protected $table = 'emails';
public static $rules = array(
'email'=>'required|unique:emails'
);
public function person()
{
return $this->belongsTo('Person');
}
}
How can I pass the $person->id to the new Controller?
In my show.blade.php for Person I added
{{ HTML::linkRoute('email.adduseremail','Προσθήκη Email',array($person->id))}}
and I added to my EmailController
public function adduseremail($id)
{
return View::make('email.createforuser',['id'=>$id]);
}
public function storeforuser($pid)
{
$validator = Validator::make(Input::all(),Email::$rules);
if ($validator->fails()) {
$messages = $validator->messages();
foreach ($messages->all('<li>:message</li>') as $message)
return Redirect::back()->withInput()->WithErrors($messages);
}
$person = Person::FindorFail($pid);
$email = new Email;
$email->email = Input::get('email');
$email->person()->associate($person);
$email->save();
return Redirect::route('person.index');
}
and my createforuser view is
<p>
{{Form::open(['route'=>'email.storeforuser'])}}
<div>
{{Form::label('email', 'Email:')}}
{{Form::input('text', 'email')}}
{{$errors->first('email')}}
</div>
</br>
<div>
{{Form::submit('Submit')}}
</div>
{{Form::close()}}
<p>
I keep getting Trying to get property of non-object (View: /var/www/laravel/app/views/email/show.blade.php)
Is there any example using Form and Models for inserting new objects to the database for 'belongsTo' Relationship? I couldn't find anything complete , just partial examples.

Answer 1

I generally use laravel sessions or laravel cache to tempererally save an id that i need to use later like:
Session::set('personId',$person->id);
Session::get('personId');
The same is for cache except cache will only last for the current request session is persistent for the session
Hope that helps

Answer 2

I am no sure if I 'm supposed to answer my own question but finally I found a solution.
I set two new routes
Route::post('email/adduseremail/{pid}', array('uses'=>'EmailController#adduseremail','as' => 'email.adduseremail'));
Route::post('email/storeforuser/{pid}', array('uses' =>'EmailController#storeforuser','as' => 'email.storeforuser'));
and created the corresponding methods in my Controller
public function adduseremail($id)
{
$pname = Person::Find($id)->name;
$psurname = Person::Find($id)->surname;
return View::make('email.createforuser',array('id'=>$id,'name'=>$pname, 'surname'=>$psurname));
}
and
public function storeforuser($pid)
{
$validator = Validator::make(Input::all(),Email::$rules);
if ($validator->fails())
{
$messages = $validator->messages();
foreach ($messages->all('<li>:message</li>') as $message)
return Redirect::back()->withInput()->WithErrors($messages);
}
$person = Person::FindorFail($pid);
$email = new Email;
$email->email = Input::get('email');
$email->person()->associate($person);
$email->save();
return Redirect::route('person.show',array($person->id));
}
then on my view blade pages I can pass the parameters from View to Form and so on
person.show.blade.php
{{Form::Open(array('route' => array('email.adduseremail', $person->id),'method' => 'POST','style'=>'display:inline;'))}}
{{Form::submit('Add Email')}}
{{Form::close()}}
and
email.createforuser.blade.php
{{Form::open(array('route'=>array('email.storeforuser',$id),'method' => 'POST','style'=>'display:inline;'))}}
{{Form::label('email', 'Email:')}}
{{Form::input('text', 'email')}}
{{Form::submit('Submit')}}
Hope it helps others also