Undefinded Index in Mongodb Array When Calling From Laravel

Question

I have Laravel set up with Moloquent in order to use a seperate Mongodb I have set up. I'm using the database Articles, which has a collection "articles", where each article is an array with info like title, url, image, etc. Some things I can pull just fine, like title and source, but if I try to call others (like url or content) i get and "Undefined index: url" error from Laravel.

use App\Articles;
$articles = App\Articles:all();

@foreach ($articles as $article)
<li>{{ $article['title'] }} - {{ $article['source'] }} </li> //this will work great
<li>{{ $article['title'] }} - {{ $article['url'] }} </li> //this will throw an error
@endforeach

Here's my Articles.php model:

<?php
namespace App;   
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Articles extends Model
{protected $table = 'articles';}

Also, if I just show $article (after $article = App\Articles:all();) I get all the information. Any ideas would be helpful.

Edit: here's the mongoose schema as well:

const mongoose = require('mongoose');
let articleSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    title: String,
    article: String,
    image: String,
    source: String,
    url: String,
    categories: String,
    dateCrawled: Date,
    dateWritten: String
});
let Article = mongoose.model('Article', articleSchema);
module.exports = Article;

Have you tried this syntax: `$article->url`? Not sure if that helps in any way - just an idea... — dnickless, Dec 04 '17 at 21:10
can you post the result of `dd($article)` inside your for loop? — Jeff, Dec 04 '17 at 21:14
https://gist.github.com/alteredorange/6ea7d00aeadb1e279e8736b799f87d11 is what dd($article) shows — Alteredorange, Dec 04 '17 at 22:01

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 05 '17 at 16:04

I ended up just switching to Postgres. Mongo was causing too many issues, and I was able to port everything over in just a couple hours.

If you're just getting started with Laravel I highly recommend using either MYSQL or Postgres since they work great right out of the box, and you shouldn't have any major issues (the above was only one MongoDB related issue, I've had quite a few more...)

Undefinded Index in Mongodb Array When Calling From Laravel

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