Laravel -Strange Behaivor. Controller data and Blade data - php

Question

I am returning a value from a variable in my controller but it yields different results when I dd($roles) in my blade view.
public function index()
{
$users = $this->user->getAll(); //DBUserRepository
$roles = $this->user->getRoles($users)
return $roles;
}
Yields correct results
{
id: "1",
username: "Muzikman",
email: "matt.paolini#gmail.com",
password: "$2y$10$Sp7k9Fs0DwFSYHTpWrTWquFmXJpkiKfRIHsjYtdEXTvbdOJwv9AtG",
password_confirmation: "",
confirmation_code: "91f0583ed76c95ebf378648d65d0eac7",
remember_token: "bGmdTchXtilBj41FIazkFS3PDZzr1tVKmTFnMkeeSoD7wpW6hoQ07A42plle",
confirmed: "1",
created_at: "2014-10-19 12:17:55",
updated_at: "2014-10-20 15:07:01",
roles: [
{
id: "12",
name: "Members",
created_at: "2014-10-24 20:45:26",
updated_at: "2014-10-24 20:45:26",
}
]
However, when return $roles from controller to blade it yields different results.
public function index() { $users = $this->user->getAll(); $roles = $this->user->getRoles($users);
return View::view('admin.index', compact('users'))->withRoles($roles); }
Blade var dump {{ dd($roles) }} returns
array (size=2)
0 =>
object(User)[254]
protected 'connection' => null
protected 'table' => null
protected 'primaryKey' => string 'id' (length=2)
protected 'perPage' => int 15
public 'incrementing' => boolean true
public 'timestamps' => boolean true
protected 'attributes' =>
array (size=10)
'id' => string '1' (length=1)
'username' => string 'Muzikman' (length=8)
'email' => string 'matt.paolini#gmail.com' (length=22)
'password' => string '$2y$10$Sp7k9Fs0DwFSYHTpWrTWquFmXJpkiKfRIHsjYtdEXTvbdOJwv9AtG'
'password_confirmation' => string '' (length=0)
'confirmation_code' => string '91f0583ed76c95ebf378648d65d0eac7' (length=32)
'remember_token' => string 'bGmdTchXtilBj41FIazkFS3PDZzr1tVKmTFnMkeeSoD7wpW6hoQ07A42plle' (
'confirmed' => string '1' (length=1)
'created_at' => string '2014-10-19 12:17:55' (length=19)
'updated_at' => string '2014-10-20 15:07:01' (length=19)
protected 'original' =>
array (size=10)
'id' => string '1' (length=1)
'username' => string 'Muzikman' (length=8)
'email' => string 'matt.paolini#gmail.com' (length=22)
'password' => string '$2y$10$Sp7k9Fs0DwFSYHTpWrTWquFmXJpkiKfRIHsjYtdEXTvbdOJwv9AtG'
'password_confirmation' => string '' (length=0)
'confirmation_code' => string '91f0583ed76c95ebf378648d65d0eac7' (length=32)
'remember_token' => string 'bGmdTchXtilBj41FIazkFS3PDZzr1tVKmTFnMkeeSoD7wpW6hoQ07A42plle' (length=60)
'confirmed' => string '1' (length=1)
'created_at' => string '2014-10-19 12:17:55' (length=19)
'updated_at' => string '2014-10-20 15:07:01' (length=19)
protected 'relations' =>
array (size=1)
Can someone explain what is going on here? Sending the same data object to blade from the controller with different array contents.
Here is the code from my interface:
public function getRoles($users)
{
foreach($users as $user){
$roles[] = \User::with('roles')->find($user->id);
}
return $roles;
}

Answer 1

dd($roles) will spit out the object itself, as see in the second set of output.
{{ $roles }} is going to spit out the object having been run through its toJson() function, resulting in your first set of output.

Answer 2

in this code
public function index()
{
$users = $this->user->getAll(); //DBUserRepository
$roles = $this->user->getRoles($users)
return $roles;
}
you did not dump it, you return the $roles, i think, when you return something and the content is "JSONable", laravel will set the appropriate header and convert the content to JSON. (found in Illuminate\Http\Response)
while the other one
{{ dd($roles) }}
it is same with
<?php var_dump($roles); ?>
which in PHP says that the said function displays structured information about one or more expressions that includes its type and value.

Answer 3

I am just curious. If you are just getting 'roles' column by ::with('roles') function. Why did other info come up in your dd() function result?