Why not?

      return view('admin/facebook/show')->with('photos',$photos);

?

Thanks for your reply.

I tried your suggestion and get the error:

htmlentities() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given

Not sure why. I thought you could pass arrays as parameters in this way

Cheers

Figured it out.

The string it's expecting is a JSON string.

I used json_encode() to convert the array to json and then used:

return view('admin/facebook/show')->with('photos',$photos);

With $photos as the (json) string as expected :)

Wait a bit.. Why did you use json_encode()? Aren't you looping thru your data? Can you please post your loop in here because i can see that there is a problem in it. It has to pass array as a php array and not as a text. You are trying to output something directly and in a wrong way :)

nvaughan84 said:

Figured it out.

The string it's expecting is a JSON string.

I used json_encode() to convert the array to json and then used:

return view('admin/facebook/show')->with('photos',$photos);

With $photos as the (json) string as expected :)

Hi ModestasV,

The code in the controller looks like this:

$fb = new Facebook(); //Facebook Model
$photos = $fb->getImages(); //return array of images from Facebook
$photos = json_encode($photos); //encode $photos array to JSON			   
return view('admin/facebook/latest')->with('photos',$photos);

The View then looks like this

<?php
$photos = json_decode($photos);
foreach ($photos as $photo) {
    echo '<img title="'.$photo->name.'" style="width:200px" src="'.$photo->source.'">';
}
?>

which converts the JSON back to an array and loops the data to output the image.

The $photos array is of the form:

Array ( 
    [0] => Array ( [source] => image_source [name] => Image Name )
    [1] => Array ( [source] => Image Source [name] => Image Name )
)

Cheers

Hi again, sorry for the long wait.

The first thing i notice you are passing an array from controller to view and then using it as object. This is why it didn't worked to you.

Do not encode the photos into a json and do not decode. Remove both of the lines and instead of using $photo->name use $photo['name']. At this point - all should work great for you!