laravel 5: adding new user not working as expected

Question

i'm trying to create a new user using the following code:

$user = new User();
$arr = array(
    "username" => Input::get('username'),
    "pass" => Input::get('pass')

)
$user->save($arr);

it does add the record to the table but all fields are empty - any idea what's wrong? thanks

Can you show you table column name?? – Kiran Subedi Oct 12 '15 at 14:41 — Kiran Subedi, Oct 12 '15 at 14:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 12 '15 at 14:49

That's not how the save function works! You should take another look at the Laravel docs on Eloquent.

The User::create() static method, the class constructor and the update method all do take arrays as input, but the save method does not.

You could do:

$arr = array(
    "username" => Input::get('username'),
    "pass" => Input::get('pass')
)

$user = new User($arr);
$user->save();

Making sure that the username and pass columns are mass-assignable (exist in the model's protected $fillable array).

You aren't going to store the user password in plain text, right?

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 12 '15 at 16:11

If you use:

$user = new User([
    "username" => Input::get('username'),
    "pass" => Input::get('pass')
]);
$user->save();

or

User::create([
    "username" => Input::get('username'),
    "pass" => Input::get('pass')
]);

The username and pass fields must be mass-assignable, http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/eloquent#mass-assignment

Otherwise, you should do the following:

$user = new User;
$user->username = Input::get('username');
$user->pass = bcrypt(Input::get('pass'));
$user->save();

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