Laravel - Trying to get property of non-object

Question

I'm puzzled with this: I'm trying to build some multilingual support in some kind of a blog format. I have some posts (that i call news) that i need in two languages. What I have right now is a languages table and a newss table.

languages - id - name - code

newss - id - parent_id - lang_id - slug - title - body

Everything is working fine until now. I'm able to save news to the database. The only annoying problem is that in the index news page i'm unable to get the languages codes. I have a foreach loop with {{ $news->language->code}} that retrieves "Trying to get property of non-object".

I'll share my models, controllers and views with you in hope some one can bring some light on the mistakes i'm over seeing.

Models:

Languages.php

<?php

class Language extends Eloquent {

    protected $fillable = array('name', 'code');

    public static $rules = array(
        'name'=>'required|min:3', 
        'code'=>'required|min:2'
    );

    public function news() {
        return $this->hasMany('News');
    }
}

News.php

<?php

class News extends Eloquent {

    protected $fillable = array('parent_id', 'lang_id', 'slug', 'title', 'body');

    protected $table = 'newss';

    public static $rules = array(
        'parent_id'=>'integer',
        'lang_id'=>'required|integer',
        'title'=>'required|min:3'

    );

    public function language() {
        return $this->belongsTo('Language');
    }

    public function parent_news() {
        return $this->belongsTo('News','parent_id');
    }

    public function child_news() {
        return $this->hasMany('News','parent_id');
    }

}

Controller:

NewsController.php

public function index()
    {

        $newss = News::all();

        $languages = array();
        foreach(Language::all() as $language) {
            $languages[$language->id] = $language->code;
        }

        return View::make('admin.news.index')
            ->with('newss', $newss)
            ->with('languages', $languages);
    }

View:

@foreach($newss as $news)  
    <tr class="gradeA">
            <td>{{ $news->title}}</td>
            <td>{{ $news->language->code}}</td>
            <td>{{ HTML::linkRoute('admin.news.edit', '', array($news->id), array('class' => 'btn btn-warning btn-circle glyphicon glyphicon-pencil')) }}</td>
            <td>{{ Form::open(['method' =>'DELETE', 'route'=>['admin.news.destroy', $news->id], 'class'=>'form-inline']) }}
            {{ Form::hidden('id', $news->id) }}
            {{ Form::button('<i class="fa fa-times"></i>', array('type' => 'submit', 'class' => 'btn btn-danger btn-circle')) }}
            </td>
            {{ Form::close() }}
     </tr>
@endforeach

Answer 1

public function language() {
    return $this->belongsTo('Language','lang_id');
}