Laravel eloquent query not updating checkbox input

Question

Why does the following hard coded eloquent query work:

Auth::user()->update(['text_only_email' => true ]);

But when the data comes via a form checkbox input it always updates as false even when the input is true ?

$data['text_only_email'] = $request->input('text_only_email', false);
Auth::user()->update($data);

See results from die and dump to prove the incoming value is true:

$data['text_only_email'] = $request->input('text_only_email', false);

dd($data);

Results of dump:

array:1 [▼
  "text_only_email" => "true"
]

* UPDATE *

I've added the following mutator to my User model to cast as boolean but it still doesnt work. Is my casting a string to boolean correct?

public function setTextOnlyEmailAttribute($value)
{
    $this->attributes['text_only_email'] = (bool)($value);
}

jedrzej.kurylo · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-06 16:10:07Z

1

The value of test_only_email that you're getting in the request is a string, not a boolean. Convert it first to a boolean true/false value and then pass to update().

answered Dec 6, 2015 at 16:10

jedrzej.kurylo

41.1k10 gold badges108 silver badges112 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

1 Comment

adam78 Over a year ago

I've added the following mutator to my user model to cast as boolean but it still doesnt work - see updated post.

Alan · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-02 14:54:36Z

0

Your mutator will always return true because "true" and "false" returns true when casted to boolean, both are strings with more than zero characters. You should do something like this:

public function setTextOnlyEmailAttribute($value)
{
    $this->attributes['text_only_email'] = $value == 'true' ? true : 
false;
}

answered Jun 2, 2017 at 14:54

Alan

2,6495 gold badges34 silver badges54 bronze badges

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Laravel eloquent query not updating checkbox input

2 Answers 2

1 Comment

Comments

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

2 Answers 2

1 Comment

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related