Laravel 5 It's not saving to database but there is no error?

Question

I'm using laravel 5.5 and try to save my blog post's comments to the database. When I tried this, it's not saving to database and not give any error?

(I add a new comment, click send, redirect me same page. But not save comment to database..)

Controller

public function store(Request $request, $post_id)
{
    $this->validate($request, [
        'name' => 'required',
        'email' => 'required',
        'comment' => 'required'
    ]);

    $post = Post::find($post_id);

    $comment = new Comment;
    $comment->name = $request->name;
    $comment->email = $request->email;
    $comment->comment = $request->comment;
    $comment->approved = true;
    $comment->posts()->associate($post);
    $comment->save;

    return redirect()->route('post_slug',$post->slug);
}

Answer 1

If you don't have comment saved and you are redirected to same page, I assume you don't have name, email or comment fields filled in. This is how validation works - if it fails, you will be redirected to previous url, so make sure you are displaying errors from validation to see what's going on.

EDIT

And one more thing - instead of ->save you shuould use ->save() and move associating post at the end so instead of:

$comment->posts()->associate($post);
$comment->save;

you should use:

$comment->save();
$comment->posts()->associate($post);

and probably it's reasonable to use transaction to save those into database.

When you used ->save you actually accessed attribute of model and haven't run model saving.