Errors when trying to display relational data - php

Question

I've been following the Laracasts Project-Flyer and have come to an end of the current videos in the series. I have decided to go off and expand on the app myself.
I'm trying to display the latest 3 flyers ( or in my case, classifieds) on the home page, along with an image.
I have been able to pull the last 3 entries and display them fine on the home page, but I've been trying to follow the same approach of displaying the images on the classified page, for the images for each classified on the home page.
Here is my code I have used.
Classified Model snippet:
<?php
namespace App;
use DB;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class classified extends Model
{
...
public function photos()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\classified_photo');
}
...
public static function getLatestClassifeds()
{
return DB::table('classifieds')
->select('ad_title','description')
->orderBy('created_at','desc')
->take(3)
->get();
}
...
Home Page Controller:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Requests\classifiedRequest;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\classified;
use App\classified_photo;
class HomeController extends Controller
{
public function show()
{
$classifieds = classified::getLatestClassifeds();
return view('pages.home', compact('classifieds'));
}
}
Home View:
#foreach($classifieds as $classified)
<div class="col-xs-6 col-sm-4">
<div class="col-xs-12">
#if($classified->photos)
#foreach($classified->photos as $photo)
<img src="/{{$photo->thumbnail_path}}" class="img-responsive">
#endforeach
#endif
</div>
<div class="col-xs-12">
<div class="classified-desc">
<h2>{{$classified->ad_title}}</h2>
<p>{{$classified->description}}</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-xs-12">
<div class="btn-group btn-group-justified" role="group" aria-label="...">
<div class="btn-group" role="group">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default">Left</button>
</div>
<div class="btn-group" role="group">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default">Right</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
#endforeach
This code returns this error when I try to view the home page:
Undefined property: stdClass::$photos (View: /var/www/html/barrys-bikes.dev/resources/views/pages/home.blade.php)
As I say, displaying the 3 classifieds works fine, its just this issue with trying to then pull an image for each one.

Answer 1

The problems is, because you using DB::table()... instead of Eloquent ORM. Do something like this:
public static function getLatestClassifeds()
{
return self::orderBy('created_at','desc')
->take(3)->get(['ad_title', 'description']);
}