How to: mass assign an update in Laravel 4?

Question

This is an for internal app, mass assignment security is not an issue in this case.

I'm dealing with very large (numerous) form fields, so mass assigning the user edits would be great. Mass assignment seems to work fine with 'create()' but not with doing a find & save.

This is what I have:

$post_data = Input::all();
$formobj = HugeForm::find($id);
$formobj->save($post_data);

How do I go about it? I'd rather not specify many dozens of form inputs.

Outoftheway

Answer 1

You should be able to use fill(array $attributes)...

$post_data = Input::all();
$formobj = HugeForm::find($id);
$formobj->fill($post_data);
$formobj->save();

Oke

It's still in the API docs for 5.2, there's a lot that's not covered in the basic documentation, perhaps you could recommend to the maintainers that this be added? – Oke

Thank you brother Phill, this solution still works on Laravel 10. – Huberman

Answer 2

In case of mass update it could be written even shorter.

$post_data = Input::all();
HugeForm::find($id)->update($post_data);

Tyrus

update won't create new records whereas the save method will create a new row if it doesn't already exist and update the existing ones. – Lightman

Answer 3

To allow mass assignment within Laravel you need to add:

protected $guarded = array();

Into your model. Basically this tells laravel not to protect any fields, you could also use:

protected $fillable = array();

And then set the fields you want to be fillable.

Hope this helps

Jameejamel

Answer 4

This worked for me just 1 line (Laravel 8):

#ModelName::find($id)->update($request->all());

Wards