Laravel - How to Approve all the posts of a particular Employee - laravel

Question

Using Laravel-5.8, I have written a code for post of employees and it is working perfectly:
Controller
public function index()
{
$userEmployee = Auth::user()->employee_id;
$posts = Post::latest()->where('employee_id', $userEmployee)->get();
return view('admin.post.index', compact('posts'));
}
And it generates this view shown below. The view loads all the unapproved posts for a particular employee:
<table class="table table-bordered table-striped table-hover dataTable js-exportable">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>ID</th>
<th>Title</th>
<th>Author</th>
<th><i class="material-icons">visibility</i></th>
<th>Is Approved</th>
<th>Status</th>
<th>Action</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
#foreach($posts as $key=>$post)
<tr>
<td>{{ $key + 1 }}</td>
<td>{{ str_limit($post->title,'10') }}</td>
<td>{{ $post->user->name }}</td>
<td>{{ $post->view_count }}</td>
<td>
#if($post->is_approved == true)
<span class="badge bg-blue">Approved</span>
#else
<span class="badge bg-pink">Pending</span>
#endif
</td>
<td>
#if($post->status == true)
<span class="badge bg-blue">Published</span>
#else
<span class="badge bg-pink">Pending</span>
#endif
</td>
</tr>
#endforeach
</tbody>
<form action="{{route('admin.post.approve', $post->id)}}" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
#csrf
#method('PUT')
<div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary"><i class="fas fa-arrow-right"></i> {{ trans('global.submit') }}</button>
</div>
</form>
I want to add a submit button to the view called approve. Once the button is clicked, it checks where is_approved is = 0 for the loaded employee and turns all the is_approved that relates to the employee (the loaded) data to 1.
I have written this function in the same controller, but I see that it will only work for a selected row:
public function approve($id){
$post = Post::find($id);
if ($post->is_approved == false){
$post->is_approved = true;
$post->save();
$post->user->notify(new AuthorPostApprove($post));
Toastr::success('Post Successfully Approved');
}else{
Toastr::info('Post is already Approved');
}
return redirect()->back();
}
and have this route/web.php
Route::get('posts/', 'PostController#index')->name('post.index');
Route::put('/post/{id}/approve', 'PostController#approve')->name('post.approve');
How do I re-write my Controller, view and route to achieve this?
Thank you.

Answer 1

try this:
public function approve($id){
$post = Post::where('employee_id', $id)
->where('is_approved', 0)
->update(['is_approved' => 1]);
if ($post){
$post->user->notify(new AuthorPostApprove($post));
Toastr::success('Post Successfully Approved');
} else {
Toastr::info('Post is already Approved');
}
return redirect()->back();
}

Answer 2

Ok I do something like below
All you need to do is that when user click the button then it should call for a function where that function will update all unapproved posts. So Im implementing it as below.
First I load all the unapproved post of the current logged in user . With just adding extra where clause in to your index function
Controoler for all unapproved posts
public function index()
{ //Fetching all unapproved post and passing it into view
$userEmployee = Auth::user()->employee_id;
$posts = Post::latest()->where('employee_id', $userEmployee)->where('is_approved',0)->get();
return view('admin.post.index', compact('posts'));
}
Defining the route
Define a route like below first and that route will call for the function named as approve_all_posts in PostController .
Route::post('/post/approve_all_posts', 'PostController#approve_all_posts')->name('post.approve.all');
New function for update
Then I make the function approve_all_posts () in PostController
public function approve_all_posts(){
$unapproved_post = Post::where('is_approved',0)->update(['is_approved' => 1]);
return redirect()->back();
}
Update blade file with button
Then in admin/post/index.blade.php
I add a button called approve all posts like below
Approve all unapproved posts