CODEWITHSUNDEEP
eloquentlaravel-5.1
StealthTrails
StealthTrails

Reputation: 2415

get() method is not working with eloquent relationships Laravel 5

I have a User model and a Friend Model. In User model I have 

public function friends(){
        return $this->hasMany('App\FacebookModels\Friend' ,'user_id');
    }

and in Friend model I have

public function user(){
        return $this->belongsTo('App\User' , 'user_id');
    }

I want to retrieve user's followers and this is what I am trying

    public function listFollowers($id,$name){

//user_id = 1 and there are two rows in table friends for user_id 1
            $user_id = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
            $user_id =  preg_replace("/[^0-9]/","",$user_id);
            $followers = Friend::where('user_id',$user_id)->get();
            foreach($followers->user as $user){
                echo $user->name;
            }
        }

but I get the following error.

ErrorException in FacebookPagesController.php line 65:
Undefined property: Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection::$user

Line number 65 is

foreach($followers->user as $user)

but when I change the get() to first() I get the following error

ErrorException in FacebookPagesController.php line 66:
Trying to get property of non-object

line number 66 is

echo $user->name;

However, this works with first()

echo $followers->user->name;

I am not able to understand the difference of this and why this is not working. If you can explain it that would be great for most of the people. This is my friends table

Schema::create('friends', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->integer('user_id')->unsigned();
            $table->foreign('user_id')->references('id')->on('users');
            $table->integer('follower')->unsinged();
            $table->timestamps();
        });

and this is users table

Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->string('name');
            $table->string('email')->unique();
            $table->string('password', 60);
            $table->rememberToken();
            $table->timestamps();
        });

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1396

Answers (1)

ffsantos92
ffsantos92

Reputation: 366

first() returns a model instance while get() returns a collection of models.

So, if you want to use first() you should use the getAttribute method to get properties/attributes from your $user.

Example:

$name = $user->getAttribute('name');

Upvotes: 2

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