BackPack for Laravel: Display two fields with same name

Question

What I have:

Tables in DB:

Schema::create('orders', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->bigIncrements('id');
    $table->unsignedBigInteger('primary_person');
    $table->unsignedBigInteger('secondary_person');
});

Schema::create('persons', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->bigIncrements('id');
    $table->string('first_name', 255);
    $table->string('last_name', 255);
});

Model:

class Order extends Model
{
    use CrudTrait;

    protected $table = 'orders';
    protected $fillable = [
        'primary_person',
        'secondary_person',
    ];

    public function primaryPerson()
    {
        return $this->hasOne(Person::class, 'id', 'primary_person');
    }

    public function secondaryPerson()
    {
        return $this->hasOne(Person::class, 'id', 'secondary_person');
    }
}

What need to do:

On page edit order I want to display information about two persons:

• First name of Primary person
• Last name of Primary person
• First name of Secondary person
• Last name of Secondary person

What I did:

In OrderCrudController.php added:

$this->crud->addFields([
    [
       'label' => 'First Name of Primary person',
       'type' => 'text',
       'name' => 'first_name',
       'entity' => 'primaryPerson',
       'model' => 'App\Models\Person',
    ],
    [
        'label' => 'Last Name of Primary person',
        'type' => 'text',
        'name' => 'last_name',
        'entity' => 'primaryPerson',
        'model' => 'App\Models\Person',
    ],
    [
        'label' => 'First Name of Secondary person',
        'type' => 'text',
        'name' => 'first_name',
        'entity' => 'secondaryPerson',
        'model' => 'App\Models\Person',
    ],
    [
        'label' => 'Last Name of Secondary person',
        'type' => 'text',
        'name' => 'last_name',
        'entity' => 'secondaryPerson',
        'model' => 'App\Models\Person',
    ]
]);

What I receive:

Only latest two fields (secondary person information).

What I want to see

The main problem:

I couldn't display Fields with the same "name" , because "name" - the attribute (column in the database), which will also become the name of the input.
In Columns this situation handled with "key" attribute. But in Fields it doesn't work.

Answer 1

Possible solution – use accessors and mutators (many thanks to @tabacitu).
https://dev.to/sergunik/how-to-display-two-fields-with-same-name-in-backpack-for-laravel-8b1

Answer 2

Indeed, you cannot have two fields with the same name. In columns it's possible using the key attribute, but as you've mentioned, in the create/update forms it's a problem because of how HTML forms work: only the last input's value will be passed to PHP, to be stored in the database.

I recommend you work around this using accessors & mutators . You can name the second field something else, even if that column does not exist in the database. Then just have a ```setSecondFirstName($value)```` method inside your Model that takes that value and saves it however you want.

Hope it helps.