Laravel 4.2 polymorphic relation with image tables - php

Question

I'm new to laravel and trying to understand correctly how to show in my view my picture of my relations.
For example I have a table for Category, Post, User, and Image, and I need some help with this.
For my DB it's OK with Image table like tutorial polymorphic relation on laravel docs.(same like doc)
In my models image I have my polymorphic relation and it's all OK
class Image extends \Eloquent {
protected $guarded = ['id' , 'created_at'];
public function imageable(){
return $this->morphTo();;
}
}
I need to associate a image on my different category
class Category extends \Eloquent {
protected $guarded = ['id' , 'created_at'];
public function posts(){
return $this->hasMany('Post');
}
public function images(){
return $this->morphMany('Image','imageable');
}
public function parent(){
return $this->belongsTo('Category','parent_id');
}
public function children(){
return $this->hasMany('Category','parent_id');
}
public function getImportantPost(){
return $this->hasOne('Post')->latest();
}
public function latestPost(){
return $this->hasOne('Post')->latest();
}
}
After that in my homecontroller for my home page I have a request for 1 particular post to show with a specific category
//show headliner post specific category
$headliner = Category::with(['posts' => function($query){
$query->orderBy('published_at', 'DESC')->take(1)->get();
}])->where('id' , '=' , '5')->get();
In my home index view I have a foreach $headliner like this
<div class="widget-area-4">
<div class="widget kopa-article-list-widget">
<ul class="clearfix">
#foreach($headliner as $headline)
<li>
<article class="entry-item clearfix">
<div class="entry-thumb">
<img src="{{$headline}}" alt="" />
<span class="category-title">{{$headline->name}}</span>
</div>
<!-- entry-thumb -->
<div class="entry-content">
<header>
<h5 class="entry-title">{{$headline->latestPost->name}}</h5>
<span class="entry-date"><i class="fa fa-calendar"></i> {{$headline->latestPost->published_at}}</span>
<span class="entry-categories">Auteur: </span>
<span class="entry-comments">{{$headline->latestPost->counts_comments}}<span></span></span>
</header>
<p>{{str_limit($headline->latestPost->content, 600 ,' ...' )}}</p>
<a class="more-link" href="#">Voir plus</a>
</div>
<!-- entry-content -->
</article>
<!-- entry-item -->
</li>
#endforeach
</ul>
</div>
<!-- kopa-article-list-widget -->
</div>
But I don't know how to show my image in my foreach because I have my post associated to category so it's OK but when I try to
{{$headline->images->path}}
(path is my entries in my DB) I have a error.
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

As you've used morphMany() to define images relation for a category, loading this relation will give you a collection of Image objects. Therefore in your view $headline->images refers to this collection, not a single image. Collection does not have a path attribute, hence the error.
You'll need to iterate through your images collection in the view and then render each image separately, e.g.:
#foreach($headline->images as $image)
<img src="{{ $image->path }}" />
#endforeach