In Laravel 5.3, we're trying to create a form, which the user can update their profile details, including a new password.
However we want to only set the password if its been submitted.
We're using a CRUD framework which handles the updating of the models, and we don't want to roll our own update(Request $request) method.
We're aware that you can register model observers similar to
User::created(function(User $user){
});
We were hoping to achieve something similar to
User::created(function(User $user){
if( $request->has('password') ){
$user->password = bcrypt($request->input('password'));
}
});
However, when we access $request, its completely empty. e.g if we do dd($request->all()); its an empty array, however if we dump out dd($_POST); we get everything.
I assume this is because of the order things are loaded, and the request system hasn't yet loaded.
Is there a way we can get the request without accessing the $_POST directly?
Thanks
Laravel 5.3+
request() helper should work for you:
if (request()->has('password')) {
$user->password = bcrypt(request()->password);
}
You can access property with:
request()->password
request()->get('password')
request('password')
Lumen 5.3+
The request() helper is not available in Lumen so you will need to use the IoC container.
app('Illuminate\Http\Request')
Example:
if (app('Illuminate\Http\Request')->has('password')) {
$user->password = bcrypt(app('Illuminate\Http\Request')->password);
}