Laravel Ardent is not updating

Question

I'm trying to submit updates to items in the Items model. However, Ardent never actually performs the updates when the update method receives them but doesn't throw an error:

public function update($id)
{
    $item = Item::findOrFail($id);

    if ($item->save()) {
        return Redirect::back()->with('message', "Item #$id updated!");
    } else {
        return Redirect::back()->withInput()->withErrors($item->errors());
    }
}

What is wrong with my controller logic here?

Answer 1

It looks like you need to set those variables

class Item extends \LaravelBook\Ardent\Ardent {
    // hydrates on new entries' validation
    public $autoHydrateEntityFromInput = true;    
    // hydrates whenever validation is called
    public $forceEntityHydrationFromInput = true; 
}

properly to get the behavior you expect.

Source: https://github.com/laravelbook/ardent#automatically-hydrate-ardent-entities