我是否应该在laravel 5.2中使用批量分配进行文件上传？

Question

Hope everyone is doing great.

I have been using a laravel 5.2 for a few days now and I am stuck with the concept of either we should use mass assignment fillable /guarded for inserted file by and end user as the file gets uploaded to server and its path is stored in database and from that database table, gets the id stored in media table.

So my question actually is should we place a mass-assignment check n uploaded file to be inserted or updated or not. Either way, explanation is needed please. if possible, please attached the demonstrated examples as well for the approach adopted.

bundle of thanks in advance for everyone.

Answer 1

Mass assignment is all about placing check on the input we get from the form. if a user tries to add a field by editing the source code (going in the inspect element section) and providing a value for other fields than allowed (mass-assigned), those values are ignored by framework. Yet if we make any change in any value programetically in our controller or model file, the changes take effect as that is done by developers at backend (server side) and not by some user at public end.

So yes. Its a good practice to use mass-assignment in order to make sure only allowed fields are getting values from the form and not the other ones we don't wish to have stored in our db.