Question

I’m sure it’s very simple but I couldn’t find any examples.

I am using fluent in my Laravel application to log my users’ logins and so I have created my own auth driver, however I am having a problem with a fluent query that mixes raw data and none raw, look at the following:

DB::table('logins')->insert(array(
    'login_email' => $arguments['email'],
    'login_date' => DB::raw('UNIX_TIMESTAMP(NOW())'),
    'login_ip'=> DB::raw('INET_ATON('.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].')'),
    'login_result' => (bool)$success
));

which causes:

SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '@gmail.com, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(NOW()), INET_ATON(127.0.0.1), ?)' at line 1

SQL: INSERT INTO `cs_logins` (`login_email`, `login_date`, `login_ip`, `login_result`) VALUES (?, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(NOW()), INET_ATON(127.0.0.1), ?)

Bindings: array (
  0 => false,
)

so I did the following:

DB::table('logins')->insert(array(
    'login_email' => DB::raw("'".$arguments['email']."'"),
    'login_date' => DB::raw('UNIX_TIMESTAMP(NOW())'),
    'login_ip'=> DB::raw('INET_ATON('.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].')'),
'login_result' => DB::raw((bool)$success)
));

But as Dayle Rees says, if it looks ugly it’s not in the framework… so I want to know what I am missing here.

Answer 1

Use eloquent

First of all, if not already done, create a model for Login, so you can use laravel’s own ORM eloquent. Eloquent allows you to write simple and yet powerful queries in a very expressive way.

Now you can do one of these two options:

$logins = Login::create(array('email' => '[e-mail]'));

or, maybe more elegant in your case:

$login = new Login;

$login->email = '[e-mail]';
$login->login_date = DB::raw('UNIX_TIMESTAMP(NOW())');

$login->save();

See the eloquent docs for more information.