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Pascal Cloverfield
Pascal Cloverfield

Reputation: 581

Laravel: Access data of relationship in Object with Blade

I'm creating the following view in my controller:

$links = Link::with('cats')->get();

return View::make('home')
            ->with('links',$links);

This results in the following object:

{"id":1,"user_id":1,"cat_id":3,"link":"http:\/\/www.google.de","active":0,"description":"","created_at":"2014-07-16 19:46:23","updated_at":"2014-07-16 19:46:23",
"cats":[
{"id":1,"cat_name":"Design","created_at":"2014-07-16 00:00:00","updated_at":"2014-07-16 00:00:00","pivot":{"link_id":1,"cat_id":1}}
]},

So my cats are within the link object. But i can't access them.

I've tried this:

{{ $link->cats->cat_name }}

but i get this error:

Undefined property: Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection::$cat_name

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3998

Answers (1)

Kryten
Kryten

Reputation: 15750

The answer is in the error message: you're trying to get the $cat_name property of a collection.

In short, the problem is this: $links->cats is a collection of cat models. You want to get the name of a specific instance of the cat model, not the collection - the collection doesn't have a name.

Use something like this: $links->cats[0]->cat_name or iterate over the collection and get each name in turn.

Upvotes: 3

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