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Laravel – Redirect even if no product selected

I have a system where a user can select an item, submit a request and move on. I need to give the user the option to NOT select an item and still be able to move on. In my current situation, I don’t know how to achieve that.

In my view, I display all the selectable items like this, using a foreach:

@foreach($themes as $theme)
<div class="col-md-4 mb-4">
<div class="card theme-card card-hover depth-2 border-0" id="theme-id-">
<a href="" class="theme-link" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#theme">
  <div class="card-header p-0">
    @if($theme->thumbnail != 0)
    <img src="https://s.tmimgcdn.com/scr/67400/magento-thema-over-boxen_67400-original.jpg?width=502&height=502" width="502" height="350" class="theme-card-img" alt=""> @else
    <img src="http://jis.gov.jm/media/blank.png" class="theme-card-img" alt=""> @endif
  </div>
  <div class="card-body">
    <div class="row">
      <div class="col-md-2 vertical-center">
        <i class="fab fa-magento fa-lg"></i>
      </div>
      <div class="col-md-10">
        <p class="m-0">{!! str_limit($theme->name, $limit = 32, $end = '...') !!}</p>
        <small></small>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</a>
<div class="card-footer bg-white border-0 text-right pt-0">
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-md-6 text-left">
      <input type="hidden" class="theme-name" name="theme[]"> 
      <button data-card-id="" class="btn btn-orange btn-sm btn-theme-choice">Kiezen</button>
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-6 text-right">
      <small class="text-muted" style="text-decoration: line-through">145 €</small><span style="font-size: 20px;">  €</span>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
@endforeach

Here, I supply the ID of each product. Then in my jQuery file, I do the following: When a user presses the button. The ID gets called and the value of the input is being set to ‘selected’.

$('.btn-theme-choice').on('click', function (event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    newSelectedCardId = $(event.target).data('card-id');


    // console.log(newSelectedCardPkg);
    if(cardId === null) {
        cardId = newSelectedCardId;
    } else if (cardId !== newSelectedCardId) {
        $('#theme-id-' + cardId).removeClass('theme-chosen').find("input[name='theme["+cardId+"]']").val('');
        cardId = $(event.target).data('card-id');
    }


    var card = $('#theme-id-' + cardId );
    card.toggleClass('theme-chosen');
    selectedCardInput = card.find("input[name='theme["+cardId+"]']");
    selectedCardInput.val('selected');

    console.log(selectedCardInput);

});

So when a user clicks on one of the buttons. That product is getting ‘selected’. Now in my controller, I foreach all the inputs and check if the value is ‘selected’. If it is, a variable called $selectedTheme will be filled with the ID. Then I find the selected product and put its values in a session and then the user gets redirected to ‘/plugins’.

The problem is

When I don’t select a theme and submit the form. It gives me the error Trying to get property 'id' of none object. The user needs to be able to go to that link even if he/she did not select a product. If the user did not select a product. The session shouldn’t even be made. I know how to check if no product is selected in the if-statement that is inside the foreach loop but that’s about it. How can I achieve this?

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