displaying static image if profile image is null

Read this https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/ternary-operator-error-l4/replies/34448

@JarekTkaczyk i updated my post

@dinis Rephrase it, it's impossible to understand what problem you have. Apart from @if(isset($leftwing->photo) && (!$leftwing->profileimage)) being wrong, if you want to use $leftwing->profileimage few lines later.

@JarekTkaczyk in my controller i have this $leftwings = Photo::where('user_id','=',Auth::id())->get(); to get the logged in user if it has photo uploaded, since there is no record it should display the last @else in my view code which is my default static image

@JarekTkaczyk my $leftwings = Photo::where('user_id','=',Auth::id())->get(); is getting null maybe my foreach() dont work what should i do if my query got null value and i have to output default image if i got null from query?

Photo::where('user_id','=',Auth::id())->get(); doesn't return null - it returns a Collection object always. What do you want to achieve once again?

@JarekTkaczyk it doesn't get anything i think because the user doesn't have anything yet in my Photo table. what i want to achieve is to display default image when the user don't have any matched id from the Photo table user_id

isset() will return true even if it's an empty string. You could change it like this to avoid the ambiguity:

@if(isset($leftwing->profileimage) && $leftwing->profileimage)

@sitesense what are the other alternative way to do it? instead of using isset?

@dinis You want to get user with photo(s) not photos directly. Show tables structure and I'll tell you what you need.

@dinis as I showed you in the code example - isset() will check if the variable exists and this part && $leftwing->profileimage will ensure that it actually has a value.

@JarekTkaczyk

User table $table->increments('id'); $table->string('name');

Photo table $table->increments('id'); $table->text('photoFilename'); $table->text('profileimage'); $table->integer('user_id')->unsigned();

@dinis Found some other problems in your view. Try this instead:

@foreach($leftwings as $leftwing)
            
    @if(isset($leftwing->profileimage) && $leftwing->profileimage)
        
    <img style="width:50px;height:50px;" src= <?php echo "/hleftwings/xpf1/" . Auth::user()->id ."/". $leftwing->profileimage; ?> />
    
    @else
        
    <img style="width:50px;height:50px;" src="/hleftwings/xpf1/noprofile.jpg" />
    
    @endif

@endforeach

@sitesense thanks.. my problem within my view still exist that when my controller find nothing that matched to the logged in user table id in my photo table user_id, it doesn't show the default image.

@sitesense i already solved it using @if(is_null($leftwingnull)) above my foreach ,it's ok now thanks!