Laravel Backpack - getting current record from crud controller

Question

In my crud controller I am trying to get the name of the person who is currently being edited.

so

http://192.168.10.10/admin/people/93/edit

In the people crud controller

public function setup() {
dd(\App\Models\People::get()->first()->name)
}

This returns the first person not the person currently being edited.

How do I return the current person (with an id of 93 in this example)

Answer 1

Ok, So since you use backpack look into CrudController to see how the method looks:

public function edit($id)
    {   
        $this->crud->hasAccessOrFail('update');

        $this->data['entry'] = $this->crud->getEntry($id);
        $this->data['crud'] = $this->crud;
        $this->data['fields'] = $this->crud->getUpdateFields($id);

        $this->data['id'] = $id;

        return view('crud::edit', $this->data);
    }

So now you can overwrite the edit function and change whatever you want. You can even create a custom edit page if you so wish.

Setup on the other hand is usually used to add things like

$this->crud->addClause(...);

Or you can even get the entire constructor and put it in the setup method because setup call looks like this:

public function __construct()
    {
        // call the setup function inside this closure to also have the request there
        // this way, developers can use things stored in session (auth variables, etc)
        $this->middleware(function ($request, $next) {
            $this->setup();

            return $next($request);
        });
    }

So you could do something like \Auth::user()->id;

Also it's normal to work like this. If you only use pure laravel you will only have access to the current id in the routes that you set accordingly.

Answer 2

Rahman said about find($id) method. If you want to abort 404 exception just use method findOrFail($id). In my opinion it's better way, because find($id)->name can throw

"Trying to get property of non-object error ..."

findOrFail($id) first fetch user with specified ID. If doesn't exists just throw 404, not 500.

The best answer is:

public function edit($id)
{
    return \App\Models\People::findOrFail($id);
}

Good luck.

Answer 3

you need person against id, try below

public function setup($id) {
dd(\App\Models\People::find($id)->name);
}