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Hi
I am currently working on creating a user table/model to a user however because i have been following laravel 4 tutorials i have become stuck. (i have only just started using laravel recently)
below is my code
class CreateProfilesTable extends Migration
{
/**
* Run the migrations.
*
* @return void
*/
public function up()
{
//
Schema::Create('profiles', function(Blueprint $table) {
$table->integer('user_id')->unsigned()->nullable();
$table->foreign('user_id')->references('id')->on('users');
$table->date('birthday');
$table->string('image');
$table->string('housenumber')->nullable();
$table->string('addressline1')->nullable();
$table->string('addressline2')->nullable();
$table->string('postcode')->nullable();
$table->string('county')->nullable();
$table->string('country')->nullable();
$table->timestamps();
});
}
/**
* Reverse the migrations.
*
* @return void
*/
public function down()
{
//
Schema::drop('profiles');
}
}
routes.php
//Load User Profile
Route::get('dashboard/profile', 'ProfilesController@show');
profilesController.php
public function show($id)
{
//
$user = User::whereId($id)->
return view('dashboard.profiles.show')->with(['user' => $user]);
// dd($user->toArray());
}
user.php
public function profile()
{
return $this->hasOne('Profile');
}
profile.php
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo('User');
}
}
user.php
public function profile()
{
return $this->hasOne('Profile');
}
how do i go about grabbing the profile for a particular used id and displaying it in the a view? Basically I am not sure what to do when in the pages controller to show a profile for a particular user or if i have even set it up correctly.
Any help or guidance appreciated
Thanks
You can get the user profile like so
public function show($id)
{
$user = User::with('profile')->findOrFail($id);
return view('dashboard.profiles.show', compact('user'));
}
In your view you can then do this
{{ $user->name }}
{{ $user->profile->age }}
{{ $user->profile->gender }}
My show function for the same kind of set up looks like this:
public function show($user_id)
{
$user= User::find(1);
$user_profile = Profile::info($user_id)->first();
return view('profiles.show', compact('profile' , 'user'));
}
hope that helps a tad
$user = User::with('profile')->find($id);
And in your view
$user->profile->birthday;
Thanks for the quick responses! Much appreciated!
I seem to get the same issue as before which makes me think I am doing something wrong elsewhere.
Missing argument 1 for App\Http\Controllers\ProfilesController::show()?
It is looking for the $id parameter but cant find it?
You need to specify that in your url in the browser. So when you have a route like this
Route::get('profile/{id}', 'ProfilesController@show');
you need an url like this
// Where 1 is the user id of the user.
http://example.com/profile/1
You can make this much easier by giving an optional id
Route::get('profile/{id?}', 'ProfilesController@show');
You can then do this in your show function
public function show($id = null)
{
$userId = $id ?: auth()->user()->id;
$user = User::with('profile')->findOrFail($userId);
// return the the view with the user
}
Ok Thanks
Now i just get ''' FatalErrorException in Model.php line 770: Class 'Profile' not found '''
On my research this is related to the namespaces but i am not really sure what should be referenced.
I have changed Profile.php
class Profile extends Model
{
//
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo(User');
}
}
To this which seems to have don the trick
class Profile extends Model
{
//
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo'('App\User');
}
}
Why would you create separate table for user profile? I think the relation will be one to one and data are relevant to user.
I think adding more fields to user table is better as long as the profile will contain avatar, dob, gender, ...
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