I am relatively new to Laravel and coding in general. I am trying to use Eloquent and to pass data from my form into a MySQL database. I can "submit" without any errors but don't see the data in the table. I feel like my code is getting messier as I am trying to figure this out and I would love a review of my code. I've tried several different ways of doing this by reading through tutorials, books and reviewing other people's code.
Route
Route::post('submit', function (Request $request) {
$data = $request->validate([
'title' => 'required|max:255',
'category' => 'required|max:255',
'content' => 'required|max:900',
]);
return redirect('submit');
});
Controller
<?php
public function store(Request $request)
{
Post::create([
'title' => $request->title,
'category' => $request->category,
'content' => $request->content,
]);
return redirect('views.submit');
}
View/Blade
<div>
<form action='' method='post'>
@csrf
<p><label>Title</label><br/>
<input type='text' name='title' value=''><?php if (isset($error)) {
echo $_POST['title'];
}?></p>
<p><label>Category</label><br/>
<textarea name='category' cols='60' rows='10'><?php if (isset($error)) {
echo $_POST['category'];
}?></textarea></p>
<p><label>Content</label><br/>
<textarea name='content' cols='60' rows='10'><?php if (isset($error)) {
echo $_POST['content'];
}?></textarea></p>
<p><input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submit'></p>
</form>
</div>
I'm expecting this to pass data to my table named "blogs."