Backbone and Laravel API - php

Question

A couple of questions that I cannot seem to find definative answers for, I am working on a RESTful api at the moment, that in time will interact with a handful of client devices, for the time being I am concetrating, on the API, and the web application that goes along with it.
The api lives at http://api.local and the web application lives at http://webapplication.local. The web application is a Laravel installation with a Backbone front-end.
I am trying to save some data from the Backbone to the database of the API. So the API save method looks like this,
public function store()
{
$user_details = Input::all();
$user = new User;
$user->firstname = $user_details['firstname'];
$user->surname = $user_details['surname'];
$user->email = $user_details['email'];
$user->password = Hash::make($user_details['password']);
$user->remember_token = '';
$user->save();
return Response::json($user_details, 200);
}
And it has a route that looks like this,
Route::group(['prefix' => 'api/v1'], function(){
Route::get('users', 'UsersController#index');
Route::get('users/{id}', 'UsersController#get');
Route::post('users/create', 'UsersController#store');
/**
* PUT request to edit the database record
* #todo: Need to be a PUT request in the long run
*/
Route::post('users/update/{id}', 'UsersController#update');
/**
* DELETE request to edit the database record
* #todo: Need to be a DELETE request in the long run
*/
Route::post('users/delete/{id}', 'UsersController#delete');
});
On the front end side (web application) I am saving a model like this,
saveNewUser: function(e) {
e.preventDefault()
var data = this.$el.find('.js-create-new-user').serializeJSON();
// create a new model
var User = new app.User();
User.save(data, {
success: function(model, response){
console.log(model);
console.log(response);
console.log("sucess");
},
error: function(model, response) {
console.log(model);
},
wait:true
});
}
This sends a POST request to the webapplication.local/users/create method, that looks like this,
public function create()
{
$data = Input::all();
$curl = new Curl\Curl();
$curl->post('http://pops.local/api/v1/users/create', $data);
if ($curl->error) {
return Response::json($curl->error, $curl->error_code);
}
else {
return Response::json($curl->response, 200);
}
}
If I look at the $curl->response then I see the data object that is being sent - which I assume means the cURL request is successfully being sent. However nothing gets updated in the API's database?
Am I going about this all wrong? Should Backbone be sending/making requests directly to the API, and leave the PHP behind the web application to do things that the API does not do i.e resize images etc?

Answer 1

You may send requests directly from backbone but you dont have to. Everything looks fine. Check what is returned from $user->save(); by writing something like that:
dd($user->save());
You should get true if everyting is fine, false if there is any error.