Models methods not detected by laravel in controller. Maybe a routing issue? - php

Question

Due to my lack of experience with Laravel, I am having difficulty understanding why I can get the Post model variables but there are errors thrown when I try to call its methods. I don't know if it is a routing issue or not. This is based on a Laravel bootstrap starter site from Laravel starter site The following error and RegisteredUserController are as followed.
Call to undefined method stdClass::url()
$posts = DB::table('posts')->join('registered_posts' , 'posts.id' , '=' , 'registered_posts.post_id')->get();
foreach($posts as &$post){
echo $post->id; //works fine
echo $post->url(); //breaks
echo '<br>';
}
Here is the post model
<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\URL;
class Post extends Eloquent {
/**
* Deletes a blog post and all
* the associated comments.
*
* #return bool
*/
protected $fillable = array('registered_post');
public function delete()
{
// Delete the comments
$this->comments()->delete();
// Delete the blog post
return parent::delete();
}
public function registered_post(){
return $this->registered_post;
}
/**
* Returns a formatted post content entry,
* this ensures that line breaks are returned.
*
* #return string
*/
public function content()
{
return $this->content;
}
/**
* Get the post's author.
*
* #return User
*/
public function author()
{
return $this->belongsTo('User', 'user_id');
}
/**
* Get the post's meta_description.
*
* #return string
*/
public function meta_description()
{
return $this->meta_description;
}
/**
* Get the post's meta_keywords.
*
* #return string
*/
public function meta_keywords()
{
return $this->meta_keywords;
}
/**
* Get the post's comments.
*
* #return array
*/
public function comments()
{
return $this->hasMany('Comment');
}
/**
* Get the date the post was created.
*
* #param \Carbon|null $date
* #return string
*/
public function date($date=null)
{
if(is_null($date)) {
$date = $this->created_at;
}
return String::date($date);
}
/**
* Get the URL to the post.
*
* #return string
*/
public function url()
{
return Url::to($this->slug);
}
/**
* Returns the date of the blog post creation,
* on a good and more readable format :)
*
* #return string
*/
public function created_at()
{
return $this->date($this->created_at);
}
/**
* Returns the date of the blog post last update,
* on a good and more readable format :)
*
* #return string
*/
public function updated_at()
{
return $this->date($this->updated_at);
}
}
Here are also the routes that I am using as well
Route::group(array('prefix' => 'registered', 'before' => 'auth'), function()
{
# Admin Dashboard
Route::post('registered', 'RegisteredUserController#getIndex');
Route::controller('/', 'RegisteredUserController');
});
Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

You are currently using the Query Builder but are expecting an Eloquent result. With DB::table your result will only consist of bare objects instead of models (with functions like url())
You can try this instead
$posts = Post::join('registered_posts' , 'posts.id' , '=' , 'registered_posts.post_id')->get();
You may also want to define the registered posts as relationship and then load it like that
$posts = Post::with('registeredPosts')->get();