Hey Chris,

Thanks! Worked perfectly what you suggested.

On a sidenote I tried what you suggested in your edit, however I got an error telling me that it could indeed not be null, so I guess the if statement is needed.

if you really want to clean up your controllers you should move that entire part into a repository, controllers should not have business logic in them in my opinion.

your controller would look like this

<?php

use Dummy\Repositories\Contracts\AnnonceRepositoryInterface;

class DummyController extends Controller {

    public function __construct(AnnonceRepositoryInterface $annonce)
    {
        $this->annonce = $annonce;
    }

    public function create()
    {
        return View::make('annonce.create');
    }

    public function store()
    {
        return ($annonce = $this->annonce->save(Input::all())) ?

            Redirect::route('annonce.overview')
                ->with('message', trans('messages.annonce.store', compact('annonce'))) :

            Redirect::back()->withInput()->withErrors($this->annonce->getErrors());
    }

}