one form submision to 2 controllers in laravel

Question

so i have 2 tables in my db: example students and hobbies. so that means 2 controllers as well StudentController and HobbyController. and as well 2 models.

i have a form where it takes for example:

• 1.student name

• 2.age

• 3.height

• 4.weight

• 5.bmi

• 6.hobby

• 7.schedule

• 8.intensity

• 9.diet

the first five has to go to studentcontroller and the 6-9 goes to hobbycontroller.. how shud i do this? i dont want 2 different forms ...

Answer 1

This might not be the best answer but you could use single form to pass to the a controller and then pass the data to the multiple repositories.

route.php

Route::resource('student', 'StudentController');

StudentController.php

public function __constructor(StudentRepository $student, HobbyRepository $hobby)
{
    $this->student = $student;
    $this->hobby= $hobby;
}

public function store(Request $request)
{
    $data = $request->all();
    $hobby = [
        'hobby' => $data['hobby'],
        'schedule' => $data['schedule'],
        'intensity' => $data['intensity'],
        'diet' => $data['diet'],
    ];
    $student = [
        'student_name' => $data['student_name'],
        'age' => $data['age'],
        'height' => $data['height'],
        'weight' => $data['weight'],
        'bmi' => $data['bmi'],
    ];

    $this->student->store($student);
    $this->hobby->store($hobby);

    //your other codes.
}

StudentRepository.php

public function store($data)
{
   // your implementation on storing the user.
}

HobbyRepository.php

public function store($data)
{
   // your implementation on storing the hobby.
}

You could use any method and variables to pass the data from controller. Hope this helps.

Edit:

For your extended question on the storing and retrieving information.

As stated in the docs:

The create method returns the saved model instance:

$flight = App\Flight::create(['name' => 'Flight 10']);

For more information refer to the docs:

https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/eloquent#inserts

If you want to pass the student id to the hobby the simplest method is to return the student from StudentRepository and pass it to the HobbyRepository.

E.g:

StudentRepository.php

public function store($data)
{
   // your implementation on storing the user.
   $student = [] // array of the student informations to be stored.
   return Student::create($student); //you will have student information here.
}

StudentController.php

$student = $this->student->store($student); //store the student information and get the student instance.
$this->hobby->store($hobby, $student->id); //pass it to the hobby to store id.

You should change the hobbyRepository store to use the student id.

This might fix your extended problem.