Laravel handling array of inputs

Question

I have the following database:

id | name | age |
-----------------
 1 | John |  20 |
 2 | Jack |  29 |

I want to edit them all in a single form with the ability to "Add more" and then save/update as needed. How is that achievable with Laravel?

My form currently is this:

@foreach($people as $person)
    <input type="text" name="name[]" class="form-control" value="{{ $person->name }}">
    <input type="text" name="age[]" class="form-control" value="{{ $person->age }}">
@endforeach

Then in Laravel I receive the $request->all() as follows:

  "name" => array:2 [▼
    0 => "John"
    1 => "Jack"
  ]
  "name" => array:2 [▼
    0 => "20"
    1 => "29"
  ]

Which I guess is expected, but not convenient to work with Eloquent. What would be the Eloquent/Laravel way of doing this?

Note: In the real world example I'm developing Name is unique.

Using Laravel 7.

Lloople · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-10 10:42:31Z

1

You should use the user id to identify every row of results

@foreach($people as $person)
    <input type="text" name="users[$person->id][name]" class="form-control" value="{{ $person->name }}">
    <input type="text" name="users[$person->id][age]" class="form-control" value="{{ $person->age }}">
@endforeach

You would get the request as follows:

[
    "users" => [
        1 => [
            'name' => 'John',
            'age' => 20
        ],
        2 => [
            'name' => 'Jack',
            'age' => 29
        ]
    ]
]

answered Jul 10, 2020 at 10:42

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2 Comments

Muzaffar Shaikh Over a year ago

Just to add on to what Lloople said, add rules too for unique names in the controller.

Lloople Over a year ago

Why should be the name unique? There are three people called John at my office.

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