Getting no result from table , while fetching data using laravel model - php

Question

I am trying to execute simple CRUD operation using laravel. but it gives an error code 500 , when I try to fetch data from table either by laravel framework as well as with plain PHP.
Here is my controller class.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\BookModel;
use \DB;
class AdminController extends Controller
{
function getItems()
{
$data = DB::select('select * from book');
$data = BookModel::all();
echo($data);
return compact('data');
}
}
axiom , which is been used. ---> "https://unpkg.com/axios/dist/axios.min.js"
Model Class:
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class BookModel extends Model {
protected $table = "book";
public $timestamps = false;
}
It is returning no result from the table.

Answer 1

It worked after I changed my controller to
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\BookModel;
use \DB;
class AdminController extends Controller
{
function getItems()
{
$data = BookModel::all();
return $data;
}
}
But it was giving null result when I was doing something like below
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\BookModel;
use \DB;
class AdminController extends Controller
{
function getItems()
{
$data = BookModel::all();
return view('admin')->withTasks($data);
}
}
Can someone explain why it was not working earlier?
Anyways , Thanks everyone for your help.
Cheeeeeeeeerrsssss!!!!!!!

Answer 2

You need to add response() to return data without view.
Like below the code returns the JSON data from your BookModel that sometimes we need through the ajax request like axios.
class AdminController extends Controller
{
function getItems()
{
$data = BookModel::all();
return response()->toJson($data);
}
}
With view you can do the following:
class AdminController extends Controller
{
function getItems()
{
$data = BookModel::all();
return view('admin', compact('data'));
}
}
Where you can access the BookModel data through $data variable in your admin.blade.php