Did you try with brackets?

$post->author()

I don't know the exact difference, but there is one. :)

d33k4y said:

Did you try with brackets?

$post->author()

I don't know the exact difference, but there is one. :)

If I change my Controller to contain:

$blogPosts = $posts::whereRaw('category = 1 AND status = "published"')->get();

And then add:

@foreach ($blogPosts as $post)
    <h1>{{ $post->title }}</h1>
    <p>{{ $post->content }}</p>
    {{ $post->author()->username }}
    @endforeach

to my view, I get: Undefined property: Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\BelongsTo::$username

Model::find($id);

returns single model, not a collection that you'd like to loop through.

Also use with because of this http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#eager-loading

$posts = Post::take(2)->with('author')->get();

then your code in the view/template will work as expected

Something else worth mentioning, why are you instantiating a class just to call a static method?

$posts = new Post;
$blogPosts = $posts::find(2);

You should be doing this instead:

$post = Post::find(2);

Is your database column author? If you were intending that database column to be the author's ID number, then you should have named it author_id.

Then, $post->author_id would return the integer, $post->author() would open the relationship object/query, and $post->author would return the User object;

If you can't rename your database column, put this hackish snippet in your post model file:

//    Allows $post->author to return the User object

public function getAuthorAttribute()
{
    return $this->author()->first();
}