Laravel fill not setting component property

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I have run into an issue with Laravel that hopefully someone could help explain. The fill command is not setting the properties of the model, and instead can only be used to save them to the database with the ->save() function. Is there a way to do fill where it actually sets the properties of the model from an array.

Example of problem below.

$comment = new comment();
$comment->fill(['name' => 'Bob']);
echo($comment->name); // Gives null/error.

$comment = new comment();
$comment->name = 'Bob';
echo($comment->name); // Gives Bob.
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2 Answers

The reason is name filed is not fillable in comment model .To Solve this issue you have to add fillable for that field in comment model

protected $fillable = [
        'name',

    ];

If you try to access non fillable field then it will return null.

If don't want to add it in fillable then you can use forceFill.

forceFill: Fill the model with an array of attributes with force mass assignment.

$comment = new comment();
$comment->forceFill(['name' => 'Bob']);
echo($comment->name);
user_160021990

Yes, you need to use fillable property of the model and need to add name inside fillable array. That's the recommended way to do it.

As suggested by John Lobo's answer, You can forcibly override that mechanism using forceFill or forceCreate. Both ignores fillable property in the model. It may possible that you may have a column like is_admin and you do not want to update it but force will do it.

Notes :

  1. The main problem with forceCreate or forceFill, is that we have to manage the foreign key assignment manually.

  2. forceFill will do fill (properties) only. You need save method call to save the actual record while forceCreate will do fill (properties) and Save both together.

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