Thomas

Missing an single quote in the protected $casts line. Might that be the issue?

You've not got an @endif statement. Laravel runs with the public/ directory as root - be sure that y...

$request->user()->id is fetching the id of the user making the request, which is of course equ...

As above, but to get rid of the \ you just need to add a use at the top of the Controller: use Auth;...