laravel中的批处理

Question

I was wondering how do you access Input elements that have an id or name code for e.g. row_1_firstname and row_2_firstname - when you don't know exactly how may rows you have, how do you do batch inserts and how do you query the Input::get or Input::all() with undetermined number of rows for an insert and update procedure

public function store()
{
     $array = Input::all();
     foreach($array as $element) {
          // do stuff in here
          // store data in a array for batch insert and update processing 
     }
}

Answer 1

I would go for naming input as arrays firstname[] and hidden inputs ids[] with id to edit

public function store()
{       
     $names = Input::get('firstname');
     $ids = Input::get('ids');

     for ($i=0, $c = count($ids); $i<$c; ++$i) {
         echo $names[$i].' was set for id '.$ids[$i];
     }
}

EDIT

If you want to insert multiple records into array you can do it this way:

public function store()
{       
     $names = Input::get('firstname');
     $surnames = Input::get('surname');

     $data_array = [];    
     for ($i=0, $c = count($names); $i<$c; ++$i) {
          $record = [];
          $record['name'] = $names[$i];
          $record['surname'] = $surnames[$i];
          $data_array[] = $record;  
     }
     DB::table('users')->insert($data_array);
}