Laravel: accessing a resultset

Question

I'm very new to Laravel and I am trying to access an object I get successfully back from the database. Its a

book

object and when I print it to screen with this line:

{{{ $book or 'Default' }}}

I get back the object printed as so:

[{"id":"1","title":"Dress yourself like the Crabmeister","isbn":"18274827","publication_date":"14\/03\/1978","author_id":"1","genre_id":"4","available":"1","created_at":"1397346572","updated_at":"1397346572"}]

Although this is fine and proves successful, when i try to access just one attribute such as

title

, it gives me an undefined exception. I try to access it with this line:

$book->title

I'm sure its an obvious answer but any help appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

It depends on how you return your object. There are multiple ways with Laravel. Your returned Object seems to be a JSON-object.

Try the following in your view

<script>
    var book = '{{ $book }}';
    //...

window.console.log(book.title);
</script>

Or you don't return the book object as JSON and you access it in the view like this:

@foreach($book as $b)
    {{ $b->title }}
@endforeach

Edit after comment

Try to put the get() method at the end of your model's call (Just an example as I don't see your model):

$books = new Book();
return $books->where('something', '=', 'some other')->get();

Also, in your model, you can do

...->get()->toJson();
...->get()->toArray();

Laravel Docs:

• Query Builder
• Eloquent ORM