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I am very new to Laravel. I am currently doing a Laravel project where a person can submit a proposal. The Laravel version I’m using is Laravel Framework 8. I divided the proposal form into 7 pages. I also have 7 tables in the database. So the data of each page will be saved into each of the tables. 1 page = 1 table. This means I also have 7 models. In conclusion, I have 7 views, 7 controllers, 7 models, and 7 tables (if this is not a good practice please tell me)
Here is an example of my code
Route
web.php
Route::get('/form/details', [AppHttpControllersLectFormStep1Controller::class, 'createStepOne'])->name('form.create.step.one');
Route::post('/form/details', [AppHttpControllersLectFormStep1Controller::class, 'postCreateStepOne'])->name('form.create.step.one.post');
Route::get('/form/learning-outcomes', [AppHttpControllersLectFormStep2Controller::class, 'createStepTwo'])->name('form.create.step.two');
Route::post('/form/learning-outcomes', [AppHttpControllersLectFormStep2Controller::class, 'postCreateStepTwo'])->name('form.create.step.two.post');
...
Model
Step1.php
class Step1 extends Model {
use HasFactory;
public $table = 'forms';
protected $fillable = [
'title',
'code',
'creditvalue',
'mqflevel',
'affectedbatch',
'kulliyyah',
'department',
'synopsis',
'classification',
'prerequisite',
];
}
Step2.php
class Step2 extends Model {
use HasFactory;
public $table = 'proposal_learning_outcome';
public $timestamps = false;
protected $fillable = [
'proposal_id',
'lo_id',
'outcomes',
'bloom_c',
'bloom_a',
'bloom_p',
'ki',
'po',
];
}
Controller
Step1Controller.php
class Step1Controller extends Controller {
public function createStepOne(Request $request) {
return view('form.step1');
}
public function postCreateStepOne(Request $request) {
$validatedData = $request->validate([
'title' => 'required',
'code' => 'required|unique:forms',
'creditvalue' => 'required|numeric',
'mqflevel' => 'required|numeric',
'affectedbatch' => 'required',
'kulliyyah' => 'required',
'department' => 'required',
'synopsis' => 'required',
'classification' => 'required',
'prerequisite' => 'required',
]);
$step1 = new Step1;
$step1->title=$request->input('title');
$step1->code=$request->input('code');
$step1->creditvalue=$request->input('creditvalue');
$step1->mqflevel=$request->input('mqflevel');
$step1->affectedbatch=$request->input('affectedbatch');
$step1->kulliyyah=$request->input('kulliyyah');
$step1->department=$request->input('department');
$step1->synopsis=$request->input('synopsis');
$step1->classification=$request->input('classification');
$step1->prerequisite=$request->input('prerequisite');
$step1->created_by=Auth::user()->username;
$result = $step1->save();
return redirect()->route('form.create.step.two');
}
}
Step2Controller.php
class Step2Controller extends Controller {
public function createStepTwo(Request $request) {
return view('form.step2');
}
public function postCreateStepTwo(Request $request) {
$validatedData = $request->validate([
'proposal_id' => 'required',
'lo_id' => 'required',
'outcomes' => 'required',
'bloom_c' => 'required',
'bloom_a' => 'required',
'bloom_p' => 'required',
'ki' => 'required',
'po' => 'required',
]);
foreach($request->lo_id as $key=>$lo_id) {
$data = new Step2();
$data->proposal_id=$request->input('proposal_id');
$data->lo_id=$lo_id;
$data->outcomes=$request->outcomes[$key];
$data->bloom_c=$request->bloom_c[$key];
$data->bloom_a=$request->bloom_a[$key];
$data->bloom_p=$request->bloom_p[$key];
$data->ki=$request->ki[$key];
$data->po=$request->po[$key];
$data->save();
}
return redirect()->route('form.create.step.three');
}
}
View
step1.blade.php
<form action="{{ route('form.create.step.one.post') }}" method="POST">
@csrf
<div class="card">
Step 1: Basic Info
</div>
<div class="card-body">
@if ($errors->any())
<div class="alert alert-danger">
<ul>
@foreach ($errors->all() as $error)
<li>{{ $error }}</li>
@endforeach
</ul>
</div>
@endif
<div class="form-group">
<label for="title">Course Title</label>
<input type="text" name="title" class="form-control text-lg" id="title" placeholder="">
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="code">Course Code</label>
<input type="text" name="code" class="form-control text-lg" id="code" placeholder="">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="creditvalue">Credit Value</label>
<input type="number" name="creditvalue" class="form-control text-lg" id="creditvalue" placeholder="">
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="mqflevel">MQF Level</label>
<input type="number" name="mqflevel" class="form-control text-lg" id="mqflevel" placeholder="">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="affectedbatch">Affected Batch</label>
<input type="text" name="affectedbatch" class="form-control text-lg" id="affectedbatch" placeholder="">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="kulliyyah">Centre of Studies</label>
<select type="text" class="form-control text-lg" name="kulliyyah" id="kulliyyah">
<option value="Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology">Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology</option>
<option value="Kulliyyah of Education">Kulliyyah of Education</option>
<option value="Kulliyyah of Engineering">Kulliyyah of Engineering</option>
<option value="Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design">Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="department">Department/Unit</label>
<select type="text" class="form-control text-lg" name="department" id="department">
<option value="Department of Computer Science">Department of Computer Science</option>
<option value="Department of Information System">Department of Information System</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="synopsis">Course Synopsis</label>
<textarea type="text" class="form-control text-lg" name="synopsis" rows="5" id="synopsis" placeholder=""></textarea>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="classification">Course Classification within the Curriculum</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control text-lg" name="classification" id="classification" placeholder="eg: CSC 1305">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="prerequisite">Prerequisite(s) (if any)</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control text-lg" name="prerequisite" id="prerequisite" placeholder="">
</div>
</div>
<div class="card-footer text-right">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Next</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
step2.blade.php
<form action="{{ route('form.create.step.two.post') }}" method="POST">
@csrf
<div class="card">
Step 2: Course Learning Outcomes</div>
<div class="card-body">
@if ($errors->any())
<div class="alert alert-danger">
<ul>
@foreach ($errors->all() as $error)
<li>{{ $error }}</li>
@endforeach
</ul>
</div>
@endif
<div class="form-group">
<label for="proposal_id">Proposal ID</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control text-lg" name="proposal_id" id="proposal_id" placeholder="">
</div>
<div class="table-responsive">
<form method="post" id="dynamic_form">
<span id="result"></span>
<table class="table table-bordered" id="user_table">
<thead>
<tr class="table-active">
<th rowspan="2">No.</th>
<th rowspan="2" class="w-50">Outcomes</th>
<th colspan="3" class="w-25">Bloom's Taxonomy</th>
<th rowspan="2">Soft skills (KI)</th>
<th rowspan="2">Programme Outcomes (PO)</th>
<th rowspan="2"><a href="javascript:;" class="btn btn-info addRow">Add</a></th>
</tr>
<tr class="table-active">
<th>C</th>
<th>A</th>
<th>P</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><input class="form-control text-lg" name="lo_id[]"/></td>
<td><textarea class="form-control text-lg" name="outcomes[]"></textarea></td>
<td><input class="form-control text-lg" name="bloom_c[]"/></td>
<td><input class="form-control text-lg" name="bloom_a[]"/></td>
<td><input class="form-control text-lg" name="bloom_p[]"/></td>
<td><input class="form-control text-lg" name="ki[]"/></td>
<td><input class="form-control text-lg" name="po[]"/></td>
<td><a href="javascript:;" class="btn btn-danger deleteRow">Remove</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</form>
</div>
</div>
<div class="card-footer">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6 text-left">
<a href="{{ route('form.create.step.one') }}" class="btn btn-danger pull-right">Previous</a>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6 text-right">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary ">Next</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</form>
and the other 5 steps are basically like that.
My current problem is how can I get the proposal_id of the first form (step1) as a reference to the next 6 forms. The proposal_id is used as a foreign key for other tables. The proposal_id is auto-incremented in the table.
The reason I divided them into many tables is that some parts of the form are in table format as shown in step2.blade.php. The image below a reference.
For now, as you can see in the code, my current solution is to manually input the proposal_id in each form (which is not practical because they would not know the proposal_id in the first place). My current code has no issue. It can be saved into the database as normal.
How can I solve this issue? Or is there another way to fill up this form? Thank you in advance.
2
Answers
The answer was helpful but not actually what I asked (sorry if my question was not clear). I found the answer to my question.
I wanted to get the proposal_id from the first form. I called the lastest added row in the table like this:
I added this code in the Step1Controller after
And then I save it into session like crazy4dev suggested:
I can access the proposal_id in the Step2Controller with:
You have two solution, the first I see is to pass the proposal_id as a parameter of your route (see below).
The second is to save it in your session variable and you can acess it throught your form
To get it in your second form use :
Update
Make sure to add this line in your migration file:
where the proposal_id is your primary key autoincrement. By default if you don’t put anything as id parameter, it will be id in your column table.