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62. Improving solution marking
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01. Introduction and demo
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02. Getting set up
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03. Modifying registration for usernames
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04. Figuring out the forum layout
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05. Creating and listing topics
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06. Basic discussion listing
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07. Pinning discussions
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08. Tackling pagination in Inertia
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09. Customising pagination text in Laravel
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10. Showing a discussion
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11. Setting up discussion posts
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12. Listing through discussion posts
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13. Adding more data to posts
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14. Adding pagination to posts
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15. Adding a post preview to discussions
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16. Adding the last reply to discussions
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17. Outputting discussion participants
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18. Limiting participants in the UI
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19. Ordering discussions by last post
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20. Handling deleted users
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21. Counting replies
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22. Building our first filter
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23. Highlighting current filters, and merging with pagination
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24. Adding auth specific filters
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25. Adding the topic filter
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26. Scaffolding the new discussion form
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27. Toggling the create discussion form
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28. Keeping form state
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29. Storing a new discussion
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30. Discussion validation and authorization
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31. Generating markdown for posts
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32. Toggling the markdown preview
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33. Fetching and displaying markdown
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34. Adding a markdown shortcut toolbar
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35. Dealing with SVG icons
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36. Creating the reply form
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37. Basic Inertia permission checking
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38. Creating replies to discussions
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39. Jumping to posts
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40. Automatically scrolling to posts
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41. Toggling post editing
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42. Editing posts
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43. Deleting posts
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44. Deleting discussions
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45. Setting up for best answers
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46. Toggling the best discussion answer
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47. Solved and unsolved filters
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48. Indexing discussions for search
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49. Searching discussions
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50. Debouncing search
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51. Adding mentionable functionality to forms
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52. Indexing users for mentioning
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53. Hooking up users for mentions
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54. Detecting and storing mentioned users
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55. Adding the mentioned filter
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56. Adding mentions to the markdown toolbar
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57. Adding mentions to the reply form
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58. Fixing up some unauthenticated state
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59. Fixing up post scrolling
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60. Reviewing SSR (Server-side rendering)
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61. Preventing parent posts from being deleted
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62. Improving solution marking
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Transcript
00:00
Coming back to something else that we noted earlier on our discussion solution patch controller, if, for example, a user was to pass through a post ID that didn't belong to this discussion, what's actually going to happen is that's going to be set in this column here.
00:16
We really need to know that the post that we're marking as a solution within the discussion row in the discussions table actually belongs to that discussion. So basically, only posts within that discussion could be marked as the solution for that discussion. So let's go ahead and figure this out.
00:35
And I put topic here earlier, but of course, I meant discussion. So there are a couple of ways that you can achieve this. You can create out an if statement. So you could say, for example, take the discussion, go into posts,
00:49
and you could say something like contains and the post that we are looking for. So we'd have to define this somewhere else up here. Let's just make this really messy for now. Reference the post down here.
01:04
And then, of course, go ahead and check if it contains that post. Now, if it doesn't contain that post, then we could do something like abort, whatever you wanted to do. So let's just abort with a status 200 for now,
01:15
just to test this out, because this is not the solution that we're going to roll with. So when I click to mark this as the best solution, sure enough, it still works. We do get an issue here at the moment, because, of course, we are passing a null value down. So we'd need to take that into account as well.
01:32
So I think that for the purpose of this, this is not the best solution, because there are additional conditions around this. And it just doesn't really make sense. So what we're going to do is we're going to get rid of all of this.
01:41
And instead, we are going to, from here, access the discussion. We're going to go into posts. And we're just going to directly find. So kind of like what we were doing before, when we just said post find,
01:56
but this time, we're finding a post within the discussion post relationship. So that way, based on that relationship, we always know it has to exist within the discussion post. So we're going to go ahead and find. And let's just remind ourselves where this came from.
02:12
I think we called this. We just head over to our post. Let's find the solution section. And what do we call this?
02:20
Post ID. OK, so find request post ID. OK, so let's head over now and try this out. When I unmark this, it still works.
02:30
When I mark it, it still works. But now, if we were to pass through a post that didn't exist within that discussion, it just wouldn't work, because it wouldn't be able to find it. The worst case scenario here is it's just going to clear out the solution
02:42
if we try and do that, because we know we get a null back from here. Now, another thing that we could do, we don't necessarily need to do this, because we have already implemented this solution, is we could add some validation here just to make sure that this post actually exists.
02:57
So if you wanted to do that, if you were to roll with another solution, you're going to want to make sure that the post ID exists in general. So if it doesn't exist at all, then there's no point in even trying. So here we could go ahead and just say that this is required.
03:11
So that's pretty important. We could say rule exists. And we want to make sure that that exists within the post table under the ID column. So let's go ahead and pull in rule here from Illuminate Validation.
03:26
Now, this isn't going to work when we unmark it, because technically it does not exist then. So what we can actually do is set this rule to nullable as well. And if we come over, hit this.
03:38
That is, yeah, that's going to need to replace the required rule. So let's hit unmark. That works. Looks like, yeah, just the post model doesn't exist in there.
03:49
And let's try that again. There we go. So everything is working. We've got validation in place, which isn't completely necessary,
03:55
because we now know that whatever ID we pass in, whether it exists or not, is always being looked at within the discussion post. So there we go. Another fix just to improve the way that this works.
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Overview
Ready to build a forum with Inertia and Laravel?
Why a forum? A forum touches a whole load of concepts that you'll use throughout your development career – particularly on the client-side, where we'll be doing most of the heavy lifting.
So, let's build a clean, modern forum with features like markdown support, code highlighting, advanced filtering, user mentions, full-text search, the ability to mark best answers, and more.
Alex Garrett-Smith
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