Hi,

i am new to php and laravel, but I really love the laravel framework.

Maybe my problem is really easy to solve, but I can't find a solution.

I have a two tables one for my users and one for my tickets. The relationship between these two tables/model is working correctly. I have create tickets with tinker and could associate it to different users without any problem.

I have a form to create a new ticket and associate it to a user with the help of a dropdwon list.

Here is my form (sorry for the different syntax but i want it to work and then i have to cleanup the code)

@extends('layout')

@section('content') <div class="page-header"> <h1>Create Ticket <small>and someday finish it!</small></h1> </div>

<form action="{{ action('TicketsController@handleCreate') }}" method="post" role="form">
    <div class="form-group">
        <label for="title">Title</label>
        <input type="text" class="form-control" name="title" />
    </div>
    <div class="form-group">
        <label for="description">Description</label>
        <input type="text" class="form-control" name="description" />
    </div>
    {{ Form::select('username', $user_select, Input::old('username')) }}

    <input type="submit" value="Create" class="btn btn-primary" />
    <a href="{{ action('TicketsController@index') }}" class="btn btn-danger">Cancel</a>
</form>

@stop

The dropdown list is working correctly and it shows my users.

Here is the part of my TicketsController where my problem is or at least i think so :-)

public function handleCreate()
{
    // Handle create form submission.
    $ticket = new Ticket;
    $ticket->title = Input::get('title');
    $ticket->description = Input::get('description');
    // Associate the ticket with the selected user.
    $ticket->user->associate($user) = Input::get('user');
    $ticket->save();

    return Redirect::action('TicketsController@index');
}

When I try to create a new ticket with this form a get the following error.

Symfony \ Component \ Debug \ Exception \ FatalErrorException (E_COMPILE_ERROR) Can't use method return value in write context

Can you help me?