Failure to extract data from a relationship with laravel - php

Question

I am trying to make a one-to-many relationship, but I get the following error
Undefined property: stdClass::$client (View:
C:\wamp\www\intranet\resources\views\users\list.blade.php)
The problem is that I am working with an existing database that in the tables does not have id fields, and the foreign keys would also be the typical ones like client_id
My model Client.php
class Client extends Model
{
protected $connection = 'dpnmwin';
protected $table = 'nmundfunc';
public function employee(){
return $this->hasMany('App\Employee');
}
}
My model Employee.php
class Employee extends Model
{
protected $connection = 'dpnmwin';
protected $table = 'nmtrabajador';
public function client(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\Client', 'COD_UND');
}
}
In nmtrabajador COD_UND field would be the foreign key that relates to nmundfunc.
And I try to get the data out like this: {{$user->client->CEN_DESCRI}}.
but it does not throw me the error, how can I solve it?
My Controller where I send in sight
public function index(){
$users = DB::connection('dpnmwin')->table('nmtrabajador')->where('CONDICION', '=', 'A')->get();
return view('users.list',array(
'users' => $users
));
}

Answer 1

You have to call basis on relations.
This code will return you data.
If you have id then you can find by id like below
$employee=Employee::find(1);
Or if you want to fetch all data then you can call all method.
Employee::all();
And then you can just get it by relation as you define in models.
$client=$employee->client->CEN_DESCRI;
Retrieving data from the instance is based on the methods which we have use.
Here in this answer, you can get that
Property [title] does not exist on this collection instance
I hope it will work.

Answer 2

If table doesn't have 'id' as primary key you should specify what the primary key is inside your model:
protected $primaryKey = 'your_primary_key';
Relation looks good, after that you must make sure $user is a defined instance of Employee, because your error probably means that your instance wasn't even defined, so for example if you are using list.blade.php, you need to change the return of your controller and indicate that you want to pass data to your view, for example you could do it like this:
return view('users.list', compact('user'));
Where user is an instance of Employee saved on '$user'
Update
First you should check your user is retrieved properly, you can check it by placing a dd($user)
And when you return a view you can pass information to it, a cleaner way of doing what you are trying to do is what I wrote earlier so you would end up having something like this:
public function index()
{
$users = DB::table('nmtrabajador')
->where('CONDICION', '=', 'A')
->get();
// dd($user) for debugging you are retrieving the user properly
return view('users.list', compact($users));
}