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Update

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About

This operation allows your admins to add new entries to a database table.

Requirements

All editable attributes should be $fillable on your Model.

How to Use

The Update operation is enabled by default. To disable it, you should use $this->crud->denyAccess('update'); inside your setup() method. This will make the Update button disappear in ListEntries, in the line stack.

To use the Update operation, you must:

Step 1. Specify what field types you'd like to show for each attribute, in your EntityCrudController's setup() method. You can do that using the Fields API. In short you can:

// add a field only to the Update operation
$this->crud->addField($field_definition_array, 'update');
// add a field to both the Create and Update operations
$this->crud->addField($field_definition_array);

Step 2. Specify validation rules, in your the EntityCrudRequest file that you are typehinting on your EntityCrudController::update() method. If you need separate validation for Create and Update look here.

For more on how to manipulate fields, please read the Fields documentation page. For more on validation rules, check out Laravel's validation docs.

How It Works

CrudController is a RESTful controller, so the Update operation uses two routes:

• GET to /entity-name/{id}/edit - points to edit() which shows the Edit form (edit.blade.php);
• POST to /entity-name/{id}/edit - points to store() which uses Eloquent to update the entry in the database;

The edit() method will show all the fields you've defined for this operation using the Fields API, then upon Save the update() method will first check the validation from the typehinted FormRequest, then create the entry using the Eloquent model. Only attributes that are $fillable on the model will actually be updated in the database.

Callbacks

Developers coming from GroceryCRUD or other CRUD systems will be looking for callbacks to run before_insert, before_update, after_insert, after_update. There are no callbacks in Backpack, because there's no need. The code for the insert&update operations is out in the open for you to customize. Notice your EntityCrudController already has the following methods, which you can modify as you wish:

public function store(StoreRequest $request)
{
    // <---------  here is where a before_insert callback logic would be
    $response = parent::storeCrud();
    // <---------  here is where a after_insert callback logic would be
    return $response;
}

public function update(UpdateRequest $request)
{
    // <---------  here is where a before_update callback logic would be
    $response = parent::updateCrud();
    // <---------  here is where a after_update callback logic would be
    return $response;
}

But before you do that, ask yourself - is this something that should be done when an entry is added/updated/deleted from the application, too? Not just the admin admin? If so, a better place for it would be the Model. Remember your Model is a pure Eloquent Model, so the cleanest way might be to use Eloquent Event Observers or accessors and mutators.

Translatable models and multi-language CRUDs

You can let your admins edit multi-lingual entries. Only translations stored the spatie/laravel-translatable way are supported right now, but more options will be coming soon.

In order to make one of your Models translatable, you need to:

0. Be running MySQL 5.7+ (or a PostgreSQL with JSON column support);
1. Install spatie/laravel-translatable;
2. In your database, make all translatable columns either JSON or TEXT.
3. Use Backpack's HasTranslations trait on your model (instead of using spatie's HasTranslations) and define what fields are translatable, inside the $translatable property. For example:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Backpack\CRUD\CrudTrait;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Backpack\CRUD\ModelTraits\SpatieTranslatable\HasTranslations;

class Product extends Model
{
    use CrudTrait;
    use HasTranslations;

     /*
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | GLOBAL VARIABLES
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */

    protected $table = 'products';
    protected $primaryKey = 'id';
    protected $fillable = ['name', 'category_id', 'options', 'price', 'tags'];
    protected $translatable = ['name', 'options'];

You DO NOT need to cast translatable string columns as array/json/object in the Eloquent model. From Eloquent's perspective they're strings. So:

• you should NOT cast name; it's a string in Eloquent, even though it's stored as JSON in the db by SpatieTranslatable;
• you should cast extras to array, if each translation stores an array of some sort;

Change the languages available to translate to/from, in your crud config file (config/backpack/crud.php). By default there are quite a few enabled (English, French, German, Italian, Romanian).

Additionally, if you have slugs, you'll need to use backpack's classes instead of the ones provided by cviebrock/eloquent-sluggable:

<?php

namespace Backpack\NewsCRUD\app\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Backpack\CRUD\CrudTrait;
use Backpack\CRUD\ModelTraits\SpatieTranslatable\Sluggable;
use Backpack\CRUD\ModelTraits\SpatieTranslatable\SluggableScopeHelpers;
use Backpack\CRUD\ModelTraits\SpatieTranslatable\HasTranslations;

class Category extends Model
{
    use CrudTrait;
    use Sluggable, SluggableScopeHelpers;
    use HasTranslations;

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | GLOBAL VARIABLES
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    */

    protected $table = 'categories';
    protected $primaryKey = 'id';
    // public $timestamps = false;
    // protected $guarded = ['id'];
    protected $fillable = ['name', 'parent_id'];
    // protected $hidden = [];
    // protected $dates = [];
    protected $translatable = ['name', 'slug'];

    /**
     * Return the sluggable configuration array for this model.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function sluggable()
    {
        return [
            'slug' => [
                'source' => 'slug_or_name',
            ],
        ];
    }
}

Separate Validation Rules for Create and Update

Differences between the Create and Update validations? If your Update operation requires a different validation than the Create operation, just:

• create a separate request file for each operation;
• instruct your EntityCrudController to use separate files, in the "use" section;

For example, we could create UpdateTagRequest.php and CreateTagRequest.php, with different validations, then in TagCrudController just do:

- use App\Http\Requests\TagRequest as StoreRequest;
+ use App\Http\Requests\CreateTagRequest as StoreRequest;
- use App\Http\Requests\TagRequest as UpdateRequest;
+ use App\Http\Requests\UpdateTagRequest as UpdateRequest;