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UtileHomme's avatar

Array to String Conversion Error (shows up on production server)

Hey. I have a DB query which is fetching data and retrieving it as a collection when I "dd" it. The same is stored into a variable and this variable is passed to the view. On running a "foreach" on this variable, I'm trying to access the variable data using "->" in the view page.

When I'm running it on the localhost, there is no issue. But when I try to run the same on the server, "Array to String Conversion" occurs for some users while for others it doesn't.

  • The error doesn't look like a coding error either since it is random in its nature. Once I clear the cache and cookies of the chrome of the person receiving the error, it disappears.

  • Since removing cache all the time isn't a feasible solution, could someone explain why this error keeps popping up intermittently.

/* Code in the controller */

    $leaddata=DB::table('leads')
    ->select('services.*','personneldetails.*','addresses.*','leads.*')
    ->join('personneldetails', 'leads.id', '=', 'personneldetails.Leadid')
    ->join('addresses', 'leads.id', '=', 'addresses.leadid')
    ->join('services', 'leads.id', '=', 'services.LeadId')
    ->where('leads.id','=',$id)
    ->where('serviceType',$servicetypeinurl)
    ->orderBy('leads.id', 'DESC')
    ->get();

/* Blade code snippet */

@foreach ($leaddata as $lead)


        <div class="col-sm-12" style="margin-top: 7px;">
            <a href="{{'/Verticalhead/'.$lead->id.'/edit?servicetype='.$lead->ServiceType.'&requestedservice='.$lead->requested_service.'&url='.$url}}"  class="editt" style="float: right;"><img src="/img/edit.png" class="img-responsive" alt="oops! Not found"> </a>
        </div>

@endforeach 

Note - It doesn't look like a code error to me because on clearing the cache it vanishes. Any idea why this happens?

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Snapey's avatar

Can you give more context to "Array to String Conversion"

Is it with the code you showed? The error will give you useful information but you don't pass that on.

UtileHomme's avatar

The error seems to show in the blade code that I've mentioned above. But as I mentioned it works on localhost and on most servers (also when I run on firefox) but for few users it shows this error but as soon as the cache is cleared, the error goes away

Snapey's avatar

on clearing what cache?

where does $url come from?

UtileHomme's avatar

The Chrome browser cache. The $url has the value which is being sent from the controller. It has the previous url from the point where the button is clicked

UtileHomme's avatar

$url = "localhost:8000/admin/home"

This is coming automatically from the controller and being sent to the above blade code. I've "dd" it in the controller and it comes correctly all the time irrespective of which page I open in the application

Snapey's avatar

Is it with the code you showed? The error will give you useful information but you don't pass that on.

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shez1983's avatar

can you also give an example query result you get? the only thing i can think of is for some ->where('leads.id','=',$id) leads Id you are NOT getting the data you expect hence the error.

Thats the only thing that has caught me of guard before.. btw why are you not using eloquent & relationships?

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