Laravel - Trying to get property of non-object

Vittorio, I think the problem is that DB:table isn't returning anything. Try putting:

Route::get('db', function() {

    $result = DB::table('todo_lists')->where('name', 'Your list')->first();

    dd($result);

   // return $result->name;

});

dd, or die and dump, will stop execution and print the $result to the screen. My guess is that the database call isn't returning anything and :

return $result->name;

is returning an error because the $result isn't an object or it is and doesn't have a name property. Either way, dd will show you the information and should allow you to sort things out.

Hello Ken,

there you go:

<?php

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Application Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register all of the routes for an application.
| It's a breeze. Simply tell Laravel the URIs it should respond to
| and give it the Closure to execute when that URI is requested.
|
*/

/**
    * / = home
    * /todos - all lists
    * /todos/1 - show
    * /todos/1/edit - edit and update
    * /todos/create - create new list
    */

Route::get('/', 'TodoListController@index');
// Route::get('/todos', 'TodoListController@index');
// Route::get('/todos/{id}', 'TodoListController@show');

Route::get('db', function() {

    $result = DB::table('todo_lists')->where('name', 'Your list')->first();
    return $result->name;

});

Route::resource('todos', 'TodoListController');

OOps Ken Alger

That's embarrassing..

I was looking at the db url..

I have just realized the main one seems to work fine, but is it ok to proceed with that error on http://laravel.dev:8000/db?

I had the same problem until i changed my Routings from

Route::get('/todos', 'TodoListController@index');

Route::get('/todos/{id}', 'TodoListController@show');

Route::get('/todos/create', 'TodoListController@create');

to

Route::get('/todos', 'TodoListController@index');

Route::get('/todos/create', 'TodoListController@create');

Route::get('/todos/{id}', 'TodoListController@show');

So it seems it has something to do with the order.

I am not a pro so i can not explain why this happens. Maybe someone else can?