laravel-4

I'm a newbie to Laravel 4, and I'm trying to get a form validation in bootstrap modal. My modal have a form with a text input and a submit button, and I want that when the validation fails, the modal show me the error. But the modal, after the validation and the page refresh, is closed. Here is the code from the controller and the view: Controller code: public function postAvatar() { $avatar_rules = array( 'avatar_src' => 'url', ); $validator = Validator::make(Input::all(), $avatar_rules); $validator->setAttributeNames(User::$names_attr); if ($validator->passes()) { $avatar_src = (Input::get(

In my Laravel 4 app, my users table has a votes column. I'd like to find the current user's rank. I can already get the top 10 users with User::orderBy('votes', 'desc')->take(10) , but I'd like to display the current user's rank below that list. Ideally, this would go something like: Auth::user()->rank('orderBy', 'votes', 'desc'); I get the logged in user, I ask for his rank assuming I order the users table by votes. Does anybody know if there's some way I can do this with Eloquent? Although still somewhat hacky you can do it via a custom getter (mutator) in Eloquent. public function

I'm using the Schema Builder inside of Migrations in Laravel 4 to manage my Postgres database during development. I've run into a problem. I want to utilize the Postgres Hstore column type in my table but I can't figure it out. There doesn't seem to be a "custom" column type in the Schema Builder (that I can find), so this was my attempt inside of a migration. This didn't work for me. Schema::create('entities', function(Blueprint $table) { $table->bigIncrements('id'); $table->string('type'); $table->string('name'); $table->text('data')->nullable(); $table->timestamps(); $table->softDeletes();

I get an error when i use HTML::link_to_route, but not when i use HTML::Link Why? {{ HTML::decode(HTML::link_to_route('homepage', '<div class="logo"></div>')) }} The same for: {{ HTML::link_to_route('about', 'WHAT IS IT') }} The error: BadMethodCallException Method link_to_route does not exist. Version 4.0.x Fixed it, it seems that the documentation is really out-dated, or that laravel 4.0 is just really new ;) replaced "link_to_route" with "linkRoute". Found it by looking into the vendor files. Just FYI, or next searcher For the latest Release (4.1) the text will be encoded itself. to get the

well I had a few controllers that were doing my jobs, now I created a few more controllers; some where in middle of an action in new controller, I just remembered that I've written the proper code in old controllers. so for e.g. in oldController@handyAction some_good_codez(); and in newController@newAction $myOldController = Load::controller('oldController'); // I wish Laravel had this? $myOldController->handyAction(); This is wrong. Controllers have to have just one responsibility: receive a http request, get some data from your models and pass it away to a view. If your controllers have to

I have many tables (user facing, not SQL) with filter boxes per column. The columns have not only the tables' fields but fields of related models. I'm trying to add a feature where one can use a comma as an OR separator when filtering data. I need to do it generally as I have a rather large amount of tables, fields and relations. Plus some tables are built dynamically. The code that adds the where clauses for the models own fields is this: foreach ($filters as $column => $filter) { $q->where(function ($q) use ($filter, $model, $column) { $first = array_pop($filter); $q->where("$model.$column",