Laravel 4 Form Model not binding id correctly

Question

I am binding a user model to a form and attaching the id. When i hit submit it places a character code (%7Bid%7D) into the form in place of the id. The model elements bind to the form properly otherwise. If I use firebug to change that code to 1 then it fires fine so I know it is an issue with how the id is binding or set.

What am I doing wrong?

I have the following code pieces:

View

{{ Form::model($user, array('route' => 'users.update', $user->id)) }}

Route that is being set in the form

Route::post('users/{id}/update', array(
  'uses' => 'UserController@update',
  'as' => 'users.update'
 ));

Controller Method that calls the form (UserController)

public function edit($id)
{
    //
    $user = $this->user->find($id);
    return View::make('users.edit')->with('user', $user);
}

Answer 1

Without seeing your code for the form I'm guessing from the fact you said you are getting %7Bid%7D that you've missed a set of curly braces.

Answer 2

I had a similar problem. It was down to a named route that required a parameter.

Route::post('something/new/{id}', array(
    'as' => 'something-new-post',
    'uses' => 'SomeController@newFunction'
));

I was calling it using

{{ URL::route("something-new-post") }}

with the intention of adding the variable later. What I should have been doing is adding an extra parameter..

{{ URL::route("something-new-post", $data) }}

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