Insert multiple rows in laravel with json payload

Question

I have an angular post request going to a laravel controller function inserting into a db. The payload looks like this:

[
{"id":1,"utid":"ABC","name":"Introduction","docId":1,"position":1},
{"id":2,"utid":"DEF","name":"Chapter One","docId":1,"position":2},
{"utid":"GHI","name":"asd","docId":1,"position":3}
]

How do I extract the inputs and assign them correctly to the database command. I imagine something with foreach but I don't know the synthax. Can anyone help me?

foreach($topics as $topic => $insert )
        {
            DB::table('topics')->insert(array(
                array(
                    'utid' => Input::json('utid'),
                    'name' => Input::json('name'),
                    'docId' => Input::json('docId'),
                    'position' => Input::json('position')
                )
            ));
        }

Answer 1

Try json_decode first:

$json = '[
    {"id":1,"utid":"ABC","name":"Introduction","docId":1,"position":1},
    {"id":2,"utid":"DEF","name":"Chapter One","docId":1,"position":2},
    {"utid":"GHI","name":"asd","docId":1,"position":3}
]';

$data = json_decode($json);

Then you could use Post::create($data); to create new entries.

To do that you would also need to setup your model to allow mass assignment for these fields:

protected $fillable = ['utid', 'name', 'Introduction'];

You can find more about it in the official Laravel documentation here .