Laravel Dynamic Fillable in Models

Question

Got stuck in a issue with laravel 5.2.

Following is the error during eloquent create operation(post call),

Mass Assignment Exception in Model.php 453: column

Answer 1

What you are really trying to do is make ALL fields fillable.

The correct way to do this in Laravel is this:

protected $guarded = [];

This works in 5.2, even though the documentation for it is found in 5.3.

(relevant source code for 5.2)

(Documentation from 5.3):

If you would like to make all attributes mass assignable, you may define the $guarded property as an empty array:

By setting $guarded to an empty array, you are creating an empty black list, allowing all fields to be mass assignable.

Also, if this model is ever going to be constructed directly from user input, please do not do this. Laravel requires either $fillable or $guarded to be defined for a reason. Unless your model has fields that are literally 1:1 with a public form, then allowing all fields to be writable on mass assignment is a security vulnerability.