Laravel Eloquent create null field

Question

class Product extends Model
{
    use SoftDeletes;
    protected $dates = ['deleted_at'];
    public $timestamps = true;
    protected $fillable = ['name'];
    protected $connection = 'pos';

    public function __construct()
    {
        config(['database.connections.pos.database' => 'pos_1']);
        parent::__construct();
    }
}

Product::create(['name' => 'Snack']);

on my db id=1, name=null, created_at='2016-06-26 18:30:24', updated_at='2016-06-26 18:30:24', deleted_at=null

Why name=null?

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Update post

works when I use

$p = new Product();
$p->name = 'Snack';
$p->save();

but why Product::create(['name' => 'Snack']); fill as null ?

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Update post(solved)

ah I missing pass array as parameter on that constructor.

        public function __construct(array $attributes)
        {
            config(['database.connections.pos.database' => 'pos_1']);
            parent::__construct($attributes);
        }

Answer 1

Probably the reason is that you again don't run parent constructor.

Instead of:

public function __construct()
{
    config(['database.connections.pos.database' => 'pos_1']);
}

you should use:

public function __construct()
{
    config(['database.connections.pos.database' => 'pos_1']);
    parent::__construct();
}

Be aware that for your Eloquent Model you have also connection property, so you could probably set also name of database connection.