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bryant
bryant

Reputation: 2051

Laravel 4: public function returns empty or model data depending on which controller calls it?

I have a UserProfile model with associated table 'user_profiles' that has some fields like 'name', 'user_id', 'contact'. In the model there is a function which retrieves this data with the Eloquent ORM and adds an additional property 'provinces' to it before returning the profile object.

class UserProfile extends Eloquent {
    //....preceding methods ommitted
    public function totalProfile($userid) {
        $profile = $this->find($userid);
        $profile->provinces = Province::all();
        return $profile;
    }
}

When I call the above function from my UserProfilesController it returns the profile with no problem, but when I try to call the method from my PagesController it just returns empty, like so:

class PagesController extends \BaseController {
    public function __contstruct(UserProfile $userProfile) {
        $this->userProfile = $userProfile;
    }
    public function show($id) {
        print_r($this->userProfile->totalProfile($id)); //prints nothing
        die;
    }
}

I would really appreciate it if someone could help explain why this is? Thank you very much!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 161

Answers (1)

Joseph Silber
Joseph Silber

Reputation: 219936

I'm not sure why you think this belongs on your model, but if you do, use this:

Model:

class UserProfile extends Eloquent {

    protected $appends = ['provinces'];

    public function getProvincesAttribute()
    {
        return Province::all();
    }

}

Controller:

class PagesController extends \BaseController {

    public function __contstruct(UserProfile $userProfile)
    {
        $this->userProfile = $userProfile;
    }

    public function show($id)
    {
        return Response::json($this->userProfile->find($id));
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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