laravel5.1 retrieve nested relation using eloquent hasOne() (one to one relation) - php

Question

My table design is:
users: | id |username | ... |
tickets: | id | supp_id | ... |
ticket_replies: | id | ticket_id | user_id |
My controllers look like:
user:
public function tickets()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\ticket');
}
ticket:
public function ticket_replie()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\ticket_replie');
}
public function supporter()
{
return $this->hasOne('App\User', 'id','supp_id');
}
My controller looks like this:
$tickets = Auth::user()->tickets()->orderBy('status', 'desc')->paginate(2);
return view('protected.ticketsList', [
'tickets' => $tickets,
]);
In my view I use:
supporter: {{ $ticket['supporter']->username }}
Any idea where I do wrong? I get all the time this error:
Trying to get property of non-object
In my point of view the relation between the tables itself is done correctly.
When I use for example {{ dd($ticket) }} in my view I get an object with all the items I need:

Answer 1

So first of all, trying to access the function public function supporter() on your Ticket model cannot be done using array syntax. Change:
{{ $ticket['supporter']->username }}
to:
{{ $ticket->supporter()->first()->username }}
If you don't want to use the ->first() you can do one of two things. Modify your existing query to include the ->with("supporter") syntax:
$tickets = Auth::user()
->tickets()
->with("supporter")
->orderBy('status', 'desc')
->paginate(2);
And access the supporter from the view like so:
{{ $ticket->supporter->username }}
// Notice how supporter is no longer a `method` ->supporter() but a `property` ->supporter
Or you can modify your relationship to include the closer ->first():
public function supporter(){
return $this->hasOne('App\User', 'id','supp_id')->first();
}
And then access it like so:
{{ $ticket->supporter()->username }}
// Notice you no longer need `->first()`
So, as you can see, there are multiple ways to access a Ticket's Supporter. Please note that you can't really combine these options; modifying the function to include ->first() and then trying to use ->with() will return an error, so pick one or the other.
Hope that helps!