Laravel Backpack

Question

I need help. I am currently working with Laravel backpack and I have the following problem: I have a field called Media, that field has two behaviors, one to upload images and the other to write a URL, the problem is that it only lets me create the one time the field. Is there a way in laravel backpack to create 2 different fields with the same name?

I want to achieve something more or less like this:

CRUD::addField([ 'name' => 'url_media', 'label' => 'url_media', 'type' => 'upload', ]);

CRUD::addField([ 'name' => 'url_media', 'label' => 'url_media', 'type' => 'url', ]);

Answer 1

Because of the HTML spec, you cannot have two inputs with the same name in a form. I mean... you can. But only the last one will be sent in the request.

If you don't want to show both fields at the same time, you can use a conditional (if/else) to show either the upload field or the url field.

Otherwise, a different way would be to choose a fake name for the second field (say... url_media_link), then use a Laravel Mutator in your model, in this case setUrlMediaLinkAttribute() to do what you manipulate the model attributes as you want.