So I am using laravel 5 form testing for my register pages which are split into 3 stages doing something like:

$this->visit('register/step-1')
		     ->type($user->email, 'email')
		     ->type($user->password, 'password')
		     ->type($user->password, 'password_confirmation')
             ->check('terms')
		     ->press('submit')
		     ->type($user->first_name, 'first_name')
		     ->type($user->last_name,  'last_name')
             ->press('submit')
             ->click('Skip')
             ->see(\Config::get('constants.success.user_registered'));

the first submit press passes because in the backend I am doing something like

User::create([
  'email' => request->email  //pardon the incorrect code
])

for second stage.. i am doing

$user_id = get id from session (basically the id created from first call above)

// find the user

User::update($request->all()); // this gives error

The error i get is "no such column: submit"..

But this is all working if i fill in the register steps 1 & 2 manually by going to the URL..

this is obv because i am doing request->all() when i remove submit from that array it works...