Laravel - How to access related object other relashionship

Question

I have 3 Models "Category", "Post", and "User". A Category has a hasMany relationship with Post. And a Post has a belongsTo relationship with User.

I have a Category object $cat1 and i can access its posts (and the user_id) in my view, but i can't access more user data (line name)

@foreach ($cat1->posts as $post)
    {{ $post->title }}
    {{ $post->user()->name }}
@endforeach

This throws an error

Undefined property: Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\BelongsTo::$name

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 18 '19 at 15:48

5

You can access it like this:

{{ $post->user->name }}

When you call the function, it's to query the relationship.

answered Apr 18 '19 at 15:48

Chin Leung

It doesn't work. Throws an error: Trying to get property of non-object – Badr Apr 18 '19 at 15:50
@Badr Can you show your user method from your Post model? – Chin Leung Apr 18 '19 at 15:52
`public function user(){ return $this->belongsTo(User::class); }` here it is. – Badr Apr 18 '19 at 15:54
I have other models with the same kind of relationship and it's working using your syntax, so i must have missed something else, checking.. – Badr Apr 18 '19 at 16:03
@Badr And the property is `user_id` in your Post model? – Chin Leung Apr 18 '19 at 16:05
i didn't define it in the Model but i did in the database migration, i can even access it using `{{ $post->user_id }}` – Badr Apr 18 '19 at 16:09
No problem @Badr! – Chin Leung Apr 18 '19 at 17:03

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