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Now that we have the working Post model,

we can finally save the submitted blog posts to the database.

I will first import the Post model in the Post controller file.

The Post model is inside of the App\Models directory.

And now I will scroll down to the store action because that is

where we actually need to store the blog post.

I don't want to store posts which don't pass validation,

so let's use this model after the validation code.

First, we need to create a new Post instance of the post model.

This will create a new empty post object and this is

exactly what we need because we need to create a new post

before we store it to the database.

I can now assign the user input from the request to the

post object properties of the same name.

These properties were dynamically created from the columns of the post table.

And now to actually save this new post instance to the database,

I can just use the save method.

Everything you do with model objects in the code will stay in

temporary memory until you actually use the save method to

commit the changes to the database.

And let me also modify this flash message.

Instead of getting the title and description from the request directly,

we'll get them from the post object itself.

Now let's test if all of this works as expected.

Open the Create Post page.

I will input some random title and description here.

Don't forget that description should be more than 10 characters long.

After I submit this, the post should be saved to the database.

There are no errors and this flash message looks correct so

hopefully everything worked as it should.

I will take a look at the posts table from the phpMyAdmin interface,

and here it is.

This is the blog post I submitted.

It is successfully saved to the database.