//User
$table->increments('id'); // -> integer('id')->unsigned();

so change this:

//Board
// $table->bigInteger('owner_id')->unsigned(); to:
$table->integer('owner_id')->unsigned();

Thanks. It's now integer, but I'm still getting NULL when I run var_dump(User::find(1)->boards);. The SQL output hasn't changed, either.

run DB::getQueryLog(); after fetching what you wanted, this will return all the queries and we can examine what's not working then.

OK. I've got…

var_dump(User::find(1)->boards);
var_dump(DB::getQueryLog());

which outputs…

NULL
array(1) { [0]=> array(3) { ["query"]=> string(44) "select * from `users` where `id` = ? limit 1" ["bindings"]=> array(1) { [0]=> int(1) } ["time"]=> float(0.52) } }

The only thing I can think of is that you mistyped boards somewhere. There is no other way that Eloquent returns NULL from any relation. Check again User model and the relation definition.

For those that might come later, if you have camel case table names, laravel will convert it to snake case if you don't input the column name in the relationship declaration. Hope this can help someone!

Morialkar said:

For those that might come later, if you have camel case table names, laravel will convert it to snake case if you don't input the column name in the relationship declaration. Hope this can help someone!

THX!