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Laravel 5 Form parameter issue

Ok so I have added in the Form functionality just fine in Laravel 5 and have been using it through out these tutorials. I am brand new to Laravel in general and can't see to find out what is going wrong. I have a nested route that is todos.items.create, so to create a new item in that list I would have to pass that ID into the Form::open tag. However when doing so I get a Whoops, looks like something went wrong. Now if I remove the $todo_list->id parameter the page loads fine but with it I always get this error. Here is my code

Controller:

public function create($list_id)
{
    $todo_list = TodoList::findOrFail($list_id);
    return view('items.create', ['TodoList' => $todo_list]);
}

Create View (create.blade.php in side my items folder inside the views folder)

{!! Form::open(array('route' => ['todos.items.store', $todo_list] )) !!}

When just doing the below it renders fine but doing the above which is needed it doesn't. This is because I need the id of the list in which to create the new item in. 

{!! Form::open(array('route' => ['todos.items.store'] )) !!}

Routes:

Route::get('/', 'TodoListController@index');
Route::resource('todos', 'TodoListController');
Route::resource('todos.items', 'TodoItemController', ['except' => ['index', 'show'] ]);

Any ideas what I am doing wrong here? I have ran a var_dump of $todo_list->id before the return of the view just to check things and it returned the proper id.

Solution

  • You've created the $todo_list object but have passed it to your view as $TodoList.

    Try using the following instead

    return view('items.create', ['todo_list' => $todo_list]);

    When calling the view from the controller, the key used in your array of data is what the variable will be available as on the pages.