angular object post to laravel db - arrays

Question

I have a json formatted post that arrives in the laravel api controller :
public function update($id) {
$post=Request::all();
return $post;
}
the post logs out to the console:
{id: 1, title: "Quiz1", description: "This is a quiz", level_id: 1, questions: Array[2]}
I would like to use the $post data in the laravel api controller to extract the data from the json object array and update my database.
The angular post is:
$scope.updateQuiz = function(quiz) {
$scope.loading = true;
$http.put('/admin/api/quiz/' + quiz.id, {
quiz
}).success(function(data, status, headers, config) {
$scope = data;
console.log($scope.quiz);
$scope.loading = false;
});
};
The code works in that it grabs the angular data and posts it to Laravel function and then posts back to the console in the angular app.
It is just the extraction of individual data that I cannot do.
This seems to work for individual posts but is rather cumbersome:
Angular:
$http.put('/admin/api/quiz/' + quiz.id, {
title:quiz.title
}).success......
Laravel Api:
$quiz->title = Request::input('title');
Wondering how I can avoid listing out all post objects.Must be something obvious I'm missing!?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Is this what you want ?
public function update($id) {
$post = Post::find($id);
if( !is_null($post ) ){
$post->title= $request->input('title');
$post->description= $request->input('description');
//And so on for all fields...
$post->save();
}
}
Note : it's not present in my example above, but you should validate the values received with the laravel validation. See http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/validation#form-request-validation
If your question was about how you redirect the http request to the controller, you should read the routing chapter of the doc : http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/routing
ex :
$app->group(['namespace' => 'App\Http\Controllers'], function($group){
$group->put('/admin/api/quiz/', 'YourController#update');
});