Update multiple rows at once using Former in Laravel - php

Question

I have a form that contains a list of settings, all with their own IDs, shown via simple foreach loop. When the user clicks the update button, I want to be able to update all of the values using Anahkiasen/Former. However, I can't seem to find the documentation on how to submit more than one set of records.
For instance, if I was opening the form to edit just one setting instead of all of them, I would just do the following:
{{ Former::open()->method('PUT')->action(URL::to('settings/' . $setting['id'])) }}
This would send it to my 'update' resource method and the following code would take care of the update:
public function update($id)
{
$setting = Setting::findOrFail($id);
if ($setting->save()) {
return Redirect::back()->with('message', "Setting #$id updated!");
} else {
return Redirect::back()->withInput()->withErrors($setting->errors());
}
}
Is it possible to do this with multiple records at once and still use the convenient $autoHydrateEntityFromInput and $forceEntityHydrationFromInput features?
I'm using Laravel 4.1 and Former 3.4.2.

Answer 1

This had to be done by just putting the values into an array and forcing the existing value in the Blade template:
#foreach ($settings as $s)
<div class="row">
{{ Former::text('values[' . $s['id'] . ']', $s['name'])->forceValue($s['value']) }}
</div>
#endforeach
Then retrieve the values in the controller:
public function update()
{
$values = Input::get('values');
foreach ($values as $id => $val) {
$setting = Setting::findOrFail($id);
$setting['value'] = $val;
if (!$setting->save()) {
return Redirect::back()->withInput()->withErrors($setting->errors());
}
}
return Redirect::back()->with('message', "Settings updated!");
}
Doing it this way, a standard resource won't work like Route::resource('settings', 'SettingsController'); so instead I had to simply do Route::post('settings/update', 'SettingsController#update');
As far as I can tell, auto hydration also won't work in this case.