Laravel Starter - PHP User Group (Myanmar)

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}
}
return View::make('users.update')->with('user', $user);
Here we have our new get_update() method. This method accepts a user ID as an argument.
Much like we did with the get_delete() method, we need to load the user record from the
database to verify that it exists. Then, we'll pass that user to the update form.
public function post_update($user_id)
{
$user = User::find($user_id);
if(is_null($user))
{
return Redirect::to('users');
}
$user->real_name = Input::get('real_name');
$user->email = Input::get('email');
if(Input::has('password'))
{
$user->password = Input::get('password');
}
$user->save();
}
return Redirect::to('users');
When a user submits our update form, they'll be routed to post_update().
You may have noticed a common theme with methods that receive a user ID as an argument.
Whenever we are going to interact with a user model we need to know for sure that the
database record exists and that the model is populated. We must always first load it and
validate that it is not null.
Afterwards, we assign new values to the real_name and email attributes. We don't want to
just change the user's password every time we submit a change. So, we'll first verify that the
password field wasn't left blank. Laravel's Input class' has() method will return false, if
an attribute either wasn't sent in the form post or if it's blank. If it's not blank, we can go ahead
and update the attribute in the model.
We then save the changes to the user and redirect back to the users index page.
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