Add And Store Data In Laravel 8
Hii Everyone,
Today, I talk about how to store data from form to database by using Laravel.
Laravel is a famous PHP web development framework.
We all know Laravel is based on MVC architecture. MVC means
M-model
V-view
C-controller
As an example, I use a Library management system. Librarian enter detail of books and the detail stored in the database.
View, controller, and model are named as follows.
addBooks.blade.php ->view
Books.php -> model
BooksController.php -> controller
I used Visual Studio Code as a code editor.
1. Model
In my database, a book has the following properties.
Name, Author, Publisher, File
php artisan make:model Books
‘Books’ is my model name.
id is the primary key of our table. it is an auto-increment variable.
$fillable — all fields in the database can change at once when updating.
Create a route for adding data.
It is the get method. “add ” is the function name of our controller.
Then create the route for storing data.
It is the post method. “store ” is the function name of our controller.
GET and POST methods are common usually used HTTP methods. POST method sends data to the database.
GET method requests data.
2. Controller
PHP artisan make: model NAME -m -cr
The above command is used for creating a model, controller, migration.
We must import our model to BooksController.php
use App\Models\Books;
I create a folder in resources named ‘pdfs’.
‘move(‘pdfs’,$filename)’ in 7 lines means we pass the file to the ‘pdfs’ folder.
‘$data->save();’ in line 12 all data store in our database.
‘return redirect(‘/’);’ in 13 line means after finished storing again connect to welcome page.
3. View
So I created a form to collect the data.
We upload books as pdf or documents or word files. Because we must use enctype=” multipart/form-data” to upload files. our form method is “post”.
So we want to upload the file because the input type of that element is the file.
We can use Bootstrap for creating the form also. I use it to get blue color in Add button.
