Part 18 - Saving our updated form data to the database and fixing a few errors from the last video

Author: jacurtis

app/Http/Controllers/PostController.php

@@ -94,7 +94,24 @@ public function edit($id)
      */
     public function update(Request $request, $id)
     {
-        //
+        // Validate the data
+        $this->validate($request, array(
+                'title' => 'required|max:255',
+                'body'  => 'required'
+            ));
+        // Save the data to the database
+        $post = Post::find($id);
+
+        $post->title = $request->input('title');
+        $post->body = $request->input('body');
+
+        $post->save();
+
+        // set flash data with success message
+        Session::flash('success', 'This post was successfully saved.');
+
+        // redirect with flash data to posts.show
+        return redirect()->route('posts.show', $post->id);
     }
 
     /**

resources/views/posts/edit.blade.php

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 @section('content')
 
 	<div class="row">
-		{!! Form::model($post, ['route' => ['posts.update', $post->id]]) !!}
+		{!! Form::model($post, ['route' => ['posts.update', $post->id], 'method' => 'PUT']) !!}
 		<div class="col-md-8">
 			{{ Form::label('title', 'Title:') }}
 			{{ Form::text('title', null, ["class" => 'form-control input-lg']) }}
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 						{!! Html::linkRoute('posts.show', 'Cancel', array($post->id), array('class' => 'btn btn-danger btn-block')) !!}
 					</div>
 					<div class="col-sm-6">
-						{!! Html::linkRoute('posts.update', 'Save Changes', array($post->id), array('class' => 'btn btn-success btn-block')) !!}
+						{{ Form::submit('Save Changes', ['class' => 'btn btn-success btn-block']) }}
 					</div>
 				</div>