Laravel Eloquent one-to-one relationship setup - php

Question

I am setting up a one to one relationship in a laravel application, but I am getting the error "trying to get property of non-object" when I try to reference a related table.
My Contractor.php model:
class Contractor extends Eloquent {
/**
* The database table used by the model.
*
* #var string
*/
protected $table = 'contractor';
function profile() {
return $this->hasOne('ContractorProfile');
}
}
My ContractorProfile.php model:
<?php
use Illuminate\Auth\UserInterface;
use Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\RemindableInterface;
class ContractorProfile extends Eloquent {
/**
* The database table used by the model.
*
* #var string
*/
protected $table = 'contractor_profile';
public function contractor() {
return $this->belongsTo('Contractor');
}
}
here is the snippet of my view file
show.blade.php
<div>
<h4>{{ $contractor->profile->tag_line }}</h4></p>
</div>
If I just call $contractor->profile the page loads but nothing is echoed back. If I add the ->tag_line, I get the "trying to get property of non-object" error. tag_line is a column name inside of my contractor_profile table.
Do you see an error that I am making?
TIA
EDIT: Database info:
Schema::create('contractor', function ($table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->integer('hba_number')->nullable();
$table->integer('msn')->nullable();
$table->string('type')->default("");
$table->string('name')->default("");
$table->string('address_1')->default("");
$table->string('address_2')->default("");
$table->string('city')->default("");
$table->string('state')->default("");
$table->string('zip')->default("");
$table->string('country')->default("");
$table->string('phone')->default("");
$table->string('website')->default("");
$table->integer('company_id')->nullable();
$table->integer('user_id');
$table->timestamps();
$table->softDeletes();
});
Schema::create('contractor_profile', function ($table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->integer('contractor_id');
$table->string('tag_line')->default("");
$table->string('story')->default("");
$table->string('area_of_operation')->default("");
$table->text('experience')->default("");
$table->text('education')->default("");
$table->text('insurance_verified')->default("");
$table->timestamps();
$table->softDeletes();
});

Answer 1

The issue may be because you're using a non-standard table name for your Contractor model. Try defining the relationship in your ContractorProfile model by specifying the second parameter to belongsTo:
return $this->belongsTo('Contractor', 'contractor_id');
You may also need to perform the same mapping on the Contractor model as well:
return $this->hasOne('ContractorProfile', 'contractor_id');