navigating to other user's profile (laravel 5.2) - php

Question

I want that a login user can goto other user's profile pages where all his posts and other stuff is displayed.
what i tried is given below:
my route:
Route::get('/myplace/{username}' , [
'uses' => 'PostController#getmyplace' ,
'as' => 'myplace' ,
'middleware' => 'auth:web'
]);
PostController:
public function getmyplace($username)
{
$user = User::where('username', $username)->first();
if(!$user)
abort(404);
$posts=Post::where(function($query){
$query->where('user_id',Auth::user()->id)
->orWhereIn('user_id',Auth::user()->friends()->lists('id')
);
})
->orderBy('created_at','desc')->get();
$accounts=Account::orderBy('updated_at','desc')->limit(1)->get();
return view('myplace',['user'=>$user,'posts'=>$posts,'accounts'=>$accounts]);
}
my view:
> #if (!$posts->count())
> <p>{{$user->getNameOrUsername() }} hasn't posted anything, yet.</p>
> #else
> #foreach ($posts as $post)
> #if(Auth::user()== $post->user)
>
> <div class="panel panel-default">
> <div class="panel-heading">
> <div class="row">
> <section class="col-md-2 col-xs-2"> <img id="imagesize2" src="images/g.jpg" class="img-circle" data-action="zoom"/></img>
> </section> <section class="col-md-5 col-xs-offset-1 col-xs-5">
> <a id="alink13" href=""><h5
> id="alink14">{{$post->user->getNameOrUsername() }}</h5></a>
> <p> on {{$post->created_at}} </p> </section>
> </div>
> <div class="panel-content">
> <div class="row" id="fetch">
> <section class="col-md-12" data-postid="{{ $post->id }}">
> <p id="post">{{$post->body}}</p>
> <div class="interaction" >
> #if(Auth::user()==$post->user)
> Edit
> <a id="remove2" href="{{route('post.delete',['post_id' => $post->id])}}">Delete</a>
> #endif
> </div>
> </section>
> </div>
> </div>
I passed the username parameter but that didn't gave the desired output.
Anything i need to provide just tell me.

Answer 1

Your problem is here
$query->where('user_id',Auth::user()->id)
->orWhereIn('user_id',Auth::user()->friends()->lists('id')
);
Your query is selecting data for Auth::user() instead of $user
$posts=Post::where(function($query) use ($user) {
$query->where('user_id',$user->id)
->orWhereIn('user_id',$user->friends()->lists('id')
);
})
->orderBy('created_at','desc')->get();
EDIT add use ($user) when declaring the anonymous function
Also you could remove the query if you have setup eloquent relations correctly.
$posts = $user->posts; // example
EDIT 2 remove
#if(Auth::user()== $post->user)
You are selecting posts (in your controller) that DONT belongt to you. So don't check they belong to you in the view.
EDIT 3
For details have a look into the discussion. The current state is that actually another reference to a user is needed in the posts table. This reference defines on whoms "profile" the post as made on. Therefore it could be called target_id and references id on users table.
In a next step the route has to be changed so that a user id is passed (could also be passed in the request body ofcourse) e.g.
/user/{id}/profile
The controller then takes the passed $id parameter as target_id and the current user (Auth::user()) as user_id (creator of the post)
Finally the query can be adapted to actually select every post of the user himself + every post where he is the target
$posts=Post::where(function($query) use ($user) {
$query->where('user_id',$user->id)
->orWhere('target_id',$user->id);
})
->orderBy('created_at','desc')->get();
Ofcourse the $user needs to be selected in the different requets and routing and internal redirects need to be adapted with regards to the changes.