Am trying to pass data from a model to be used to populate a select menu in my user registration form. What is the easy way to achieve this?

You would probably get all the data in your controller, then pass it to your view.
eg. return view('signup')->with('schools', School::all());
Then in your view, just loop through and display it.
eg

<select name="school">
@foreach($schools as $school)
<option value="{{ $school->id }}">{{ $school->name }}</option>
@endforeach
</select>

Actually, I want to customize my users registration form and am using Laravel default auth controller and there is no option to pass data to the register view.

maekhel:
Actually, I want to customize my users registration form and am using Laravel default auth controller and there is no option to pass data to the register view.

yeah from your AuthController notice laravel is using AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers trait. you can just override the getRegister method in the Controller.

So you will add this method in your AuthController to override the default.

public function getRegister()
    {
        $data = [
               'schools' => School::all();
           ];

        return view('auth.register', $data);
    }

Also get in the habit of looking at some methods in the source codes sometimes, It really helps.

jidez007:


yeah from your AuthController notice laravel is using AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers trait. you can just override the getRegister method in the Controller.

So you will add this method in your AuthController to override the default.

public function getRegister()
    {
        $data = [
               'schools' => School::all();
           ];

        return view('auth.register', $data);
    }

Also get in the habit of looking at some methods in the source codes sometimes, It really helps.

This worked but I didn't know could do such in Laravel 5.

maekhel:

This worked but I didn't know could do such in Laravel 5.

You are welcome

maekhel:
Am trying to pass data from a model to be used to populate a select menu in my user registration form. What is the easy way to achieve this?

The whole point of MVC is "separation of concerns". Your Model should fetch your data. Your views should display info to the users. The controller ties the model and the view together. It should control the process.

To answer you question: if your model is named User, call it in your controller like so

$this->data['users'] = User::get();

Then you can call your view like this

return View::make('user', $this->data);


Your data will be extracted and made available in the $users variable

maekhel:

This worked but I didn't know could do such in Laravel 5.

Yeah you can easily override the methods in the AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers trait

by copying the methods to your AuthController Class, easy navigation if you are using netbean as I am , just press ctrl and click on

AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers from the AuthController Class , so you can just easily modify both methods below to suit your purpose

public function getRegister()
{
//code
}

public function postRegister(Request $request)
{
//code here
}

dplumptre:


Yeah you can easily override the methods in the AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers trait

by copying the methods to your AuthController Class, easy navigation if you are using netbean as I am , just press ctrl and click on

AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers from the AuthController Class , so you can just easily modify both methods below to suit your purpose

public function getRegister()
{
//code
}

public function postRegister(Request $request)
{
//code here
}

Thanks for the insight

How do I populate a select menu based on a previous select menu option in laravel.

maekhel:
How do I populate a select menu based on a previous select menu option in laravel.

One thesame page

jacob05:

One thesame page

yes

maekhel:

yes

use Javascript .... You'd need an API call too.. to fetch the result based on the selected select option

jacob05:


use Javascript .... You'd need an API call too.. to fetch the result based on the selected select option

How do create an api route

maekhel:

How do create an api route

It's just a normal route.. But instead of returning a view you return a "TYPE"... The "TYPE" can be a string, XML, and most preferably JSON

eg
return Response::json(array('name' => 'Steve', 'state' => 'CA'));