How have you setup the Team and Player relationships? Can we see you code please?

Hi,

Yeah here is my Team model:

    public function getLogo($league='nhl'){
        $filename = str_replace(' ', '', $this->team_name);
        $filename = $filename. ".png";
        $path = '/assets/images/logos/' .$league. '/' .$filename;
        $image = HTML::image($path, $alt=$this->team_name, $attributes=array('width'=>'40px','height'=>'40px'));
        return $image;
    }
    public function players()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('Player','team');
    }

Player model:

	public function team()
	{
		return $this->belongsTo('Team','team');
	}

And my call:

$player->team()->getLogo();

{{ $player->team->getLogo() }}

Hi eriktisme,

I get the following error: Call to a member function getLogo() on a non-object

Could it be because there is a field name called team?

This means that there is no result so either there's no team for this player or no image found.

Hi,

Pretty sure there is a result... I just ran a test query for a player that is sure to have a team...

So, eriktisme wrote right, but your problem seems to be on relationship or database schema.

To get it work you should have database schema like that:

Players = id, team_id, ...rest of fields

Teams = id, ...rest of fields

Team Model

protected $table = 'Team'; //only if your table is not in plural

public function players(){
    return $this->hasMany('Player'); //this assume that your Player model has team_id field
}

Player Model

public function team(){
    return $this->belongsTo('Team'); //this assume that your Player model has team_id field
}

Now, just call things using: Team logo from $player = $player->team->getLogo()

Note: use $player->team->attribue and NOT $player->team()->attribute Array with all players of team = $team->players

Hi the relationship works, as a matter of fact, when I just pritn this:

$player->team it shows the team full details... When I do this: $player->team['team_name']

It works just fine... But now when I do $player->team->team_name...

Why is that?

Any ideas why?

Does the $player table have a field called 'team' ? If so, either rename that field or simply rename the relationship.

asivaneswaran said:

Hi eriktisme,

I get the following error: Call to a member function getLogo() on a non-object

Could it be because there is a field name called team?

Yes, exactly. This is your problem here. If you have property with the same name as a relation, then you can't use dynamic properties.

Rename either relation, or (better) column to team_id.

Also you can get the relation anyway:

$player->load('team');
$player->getRelation('team');

// it will return exactly the same what you would expect from:
$player->team;