Save the user ID of who created the component or incident

app/controllers/ApiController.php

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 		 */
 		public function postComponents() {
 			$component = new Component(Input::all());
+			$component->user_id = $this->auth->user()->id;
 			if ($component->isValid()) {
 				$component->saveOrFail();
 				return $component;
@@ -82,6 +83,7 @@
 		 */
 		public function postIncidents() {
 			$incident = new Incident(Input::all());
+			$incident->user_id = $this->auth->user()->id;
 			if ($incident->isValid()) {
 				$incident->saveOrFail();
 				return $incident;

app/database/migrations/2014_11_25_114040_UserIdColumnForComponents.php

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+<?php
+
+use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
+use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
+
+class UserIdColumnForComponents extends Migration {
+
+	/**
+	 * Run the migrations.
+	 *
+	 * @return void
+	 */
+	public function up()
+	{
+		Schema::table('components', function(Blueprint $table)
+		{
+			$table->unsignedInteger('user_id')->nullable();
+
+			$table->foreign('user_id')->references('id')->on('users')->onDelete('SET NULL')->onUpdate('NO ACTION');
+		});
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Reverse the migrations.
+	 *
+	 * @return void
+	 */
+	public function down()
+	{
+		Schema::table('components', function(Blueprint $table)
+		{
+			$table->dropColumn('user_id');
+		});
+	}
+
+}

app/database/migrations/2014_11_25_114101_UserIdColumnForIncidents.php

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+<?php
+
+use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
+use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
+
+class UserIdColumnForIncidents extends Migration {
+
+	/**
+	 * Run the migrations.
+	 *
+	 * @return void
+	 */
+	public function up()
+	{
+		Schema::table('incidents', function(Blueprint $table)
+		{
+			$table->unsignedInteger('user_id')->nullable();
+
+			$table->foreign('user_id')->references('id')->on('users')->onDelete('SET NULL')->onUpdate('NO ACTION');
+		});
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Reverse the migrations.
+	 *
+	 * @return void
+	 */
+	public function down()
+	{
+		Schema::table('incidents', function(Blueprint $table)
+		{
+			$table->dropColumn('user_id');
+		});
+	}
+
+}

app/models/Component.php

@@ -6,11 +6,12 @@
 		use ValidatingTrait;
 
 		protected $rules = [
+			'user_id'   => 'required|integer',
 			'name'   => 'required',
 			'status' => 'required|integer'
 		];
 
-		protected $fillable = ['name', 'description', 'status'];
+		protected $fillable = ['user_id', 'name', 'description', 'status'];
 
 		/**
 		 * Lookup all of the incidents reported on the component.

app/models/Incident.php

@@ -7,13 +7,14 @@
 		use \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletingTrait;
 
 		protected $rules = [
+			'user_id'   => 'required|integer',
 			'component'   => 'required|integer',
 			'name'   => 'required',
 			'status' => 'required|integer',
 			'message' => 'required',
 		];
 
-		protected $fillable = ['component', 'name', 'status', 'message'];
+		protected $fillable = ['user_id', 'component', 'name', 'status', 'message'];
 
 		/**
 		 * An incident belongs to a component.