public static function submitItems(Request $request, $eid)
 {
     $itemlist = json_decode(json_encode($request->itemlist), true);
     $uid = Auth::User()->uid;
     foreach ($itemlist as $item) {
         $newItem = new EventListItem();
         $newItem->uid = 0;
         $newItem->eid = $eid;
         $newItem->description = $item;
         $newItem->save();
     }
 }
 public static function submitItems($eid)
 {
     $input = Request::all();
     $itemsList = $input['returnlist'];
     $itemArray = array_map('trim', explode(',', $itemsList));
     foreach ($itemArray as $item) {
         $newItem = new EventListItem();
         $newItem->eid = $eid;
         $newItem->uid = 0;
         $newItem->description = $item;
         $newItem->save();
     }
 }