hi,

here's the show method of my SiteController, it shows a site resource as a json to any user who request one with a existing site ID.

public function show($id)
{
	$site = Site::find($id)
	if($site){
			$arr = $site->toArray();
			$arr['error'] = false;
			return Response::json($arr, 200);
		}else{
			return Response::json(array('error' => true), 500);
		}

sadly it downs't really work as it throw http error "whoops there was an error" when the id doesn't exist. Here's a better one:

public function show($id)
{
	if($site = Site::find($id)){
			$arr = $site->toArray();
			$arr['error'] = false;
			return Response::json($arr, 200);
		}else{
			return Response::json(array('error' => true), 500);
		}

This one seams to work but is not very nice. If there were n call to the db through Eloquent I would have to make n conditional to catch everything.

What is the Laravel way to return a JSON with the error code on error?

Thank you very much