Fill method in Laravel not working?

In your model you need to have protected $fillable = ['foo','bar'];

Then you can do:

$event = new Event(array('foo' => "foo", "bar" => "bar"));
$event->save(); // Save to database and return back the event
dd($event);

The array key needs to be on the $fillable, as Laravel will effectively call:

foreach ($array as $key => $value){
  $event->$key = $value;
}

Alternatively, you can write directly to a column name:

$event = new Event();
$event->foo = "foo";
$event->bar = "bar";
$event->save();
dd($event);

Also make sure that the $fillable property is defined in your model class. For example, in your new renamed model:

/**
 * The attributes that are mass assignable.
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $fillable = ['field1', 'field2'];

If you do not have either $fillable or $guarded defined on your Model, fill() won't set any values. This is to prevent the model from mass assignment. See "Mass Assignment" on the Laravel Eloquent docs: http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/eloquent.

When filling the attributes, make sure to use an associative array:

$event->fill(array('field1' => 'val1', 'field2' => 'val2'));

A useful way to debug and check all your values:

//This will var_dump the variable's data and exit the function so no other code is executed
dd($event);

Hope this helps!

The attributes is a protected property. Use $obj->getAttributes() method.

Actually. at first you should change the model name from Event to something else, Laravel has a Facade class as Illuminate\Support\Facades\Event so it could be a problem.

Regarding the fill method, you should pass an associative array to fill method like:

$obj = new MyModel;
$obj->fill(array('fieldname1' => 'value', 'fieldname2' => 'value'));

Also make sure you have a protected $fillable (check mass assignment) property declared in your Model with property names that are allowed to be filled. You may also do the same thing when initializing the Model:

$properties = array('fieldname1' => 'value', 'fieldname2' => 'value');
$obj = new ModelName($properties);

Finally, call:

// Instead of attributes
dd($obj->getAttributes());

Because attributes is a protected property.

Use a key/value array in fill:

An example:

$book->fill(array(
    'title'  => 'A title',
    'author' => 'An author'
));