Auth::user()->ideas()->create([ 'description' => request('description'), 'state' => 'pending', ]); Undefined method 'ideas'.

It would be great if there was a Git repository of the code so we could check for any errors.

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@karimi_wahid Hi, if you would load the page first time, it would try to read the session, but since you have not pushed any ideas so far, session()->read('ideas') would return null. If you used @foreach directive on it, it would result in an error, because you cannot foreach a null.

To remedy this, session()->read() function has a second argument that sets a default value if the key is not found. Jeffrey used an empty array, so if your session is empty, instead of a null, an empty array is returned. And because empty array is still an array (technically), @foreach throws no errors.

What is the array -> [] for in here $ideas = session()->get('ideas', []);