Laravel RESTful edit screen with multiple tables - laravel

Question

I have 3 tables for storing business details. The main table and a phone numbers table, as a business can have any number of phone numbers attached to it.
Table 1 - Business listing
Table 2 - Business phone numbers
Table 3 - Links table 1 to table 2 as shown here
1 id int(11) No None AUTO_INCREMENT
2 listings_id int(11) No None
3 listingsphone_id int(11) No None
4 created_at timestamp
5 updated_at timestamp
My controller extracts the data from the database and passes it to the view
public function edit($id)
{
// get the listing
$listing = DB::table('listings')
->where('listings.id', '=', $id)
->first();
$listingphone = DB::table('listings')
->leftjoin('listings_listingsphone_rel', 'listings.id', '=', 'listings_listingsphone_rel.listings_id')
->leftjoin('listingsphone', 'listings_listingsphone_rel.listingsphone_id', '=', 'listingsphone.id')
->where('listings.id', '=', $id)
->get();
// show the edit form and pass the listing
return View::make('admin.listings.edit')
->with('listing', $listing)
->with('listingphone', $listingphone);
}
Blade then needs to create multiple Input rows in the form for outputting to the screen, one for each row that exists.
{{ Form::model($listing, array('route' => array('admin.listings.update', $listing->id), 'method' => 'PUT')) }}
<div class="form-group">
{{ Form::label('listingname', 'Company Name') }}
{{ Form::text('listingname', null, array('class' => 'form-control')) }}
</div>
#foreach($listingphone as $key => $value)
<div class="form-group">
{{ Form::label('phone', 'Phone number') }}
{{ Form::text('phone', null, array('class' => 'form-control')) }}
</div>
#endforeach
{{ Form::submit('Edit the Listing!', array('class' => 'btn btn-primary')) }}
{{ Form::close() }}
The problem with the code is, it will generate for me multiple Input lines with the same Name and ID
<label for="phone">Phone</label>
<input class="form-control" name="phone" type="text" id="phone">
<label for="phone">Phone</label>
<input class="form-control" name="phone" type="text" id="phone">
I obviously need to store that data in the controller with code such as this (psuedo code):-
// store
$listing = Listing::find($id);
$listing->listings_company = Input::get('listings_company');
$listing->save();
// store
$listingphone = ListingPhone::find($id);
foreach ($listingphone as $key => $value)
{
$listingphone->listings_phone = Input::get('phone['$key']');
$listingphone->save();
}
How should I be handling this type of setup within Blade/the controller?

Answer 1

I'm assuming that the problem you are having the text form fields is the same kind of issue that you need to deal with when you have a checkbox. You have multiple fields with the same name that needs to be referenced anyway.
For that you need to use brackets on the form field name.
You can see a similar example related to checkboxes here:
How to get the values for a series of checkboxes in Laravel 4 controller (if checked)