Laravel Associate method is returning empty array in the view

Question

I am working on a simple social network, i am working on the replies section now. I associated the post/status model with user as below, but when i tried to access in the vi

Answer 1

It seems like your are not attaching the replies to your $post variable while passing it to your view.
We have to use with() method to join these two tables.
Try, the following :

if(Auth::check()){ 
            $posts = Post::notReply()
                    ->where(function($query){ 
                        return $query->where('user_id', Auth::user()->id)
                                ->orWhereIn('user_id', Auth::user()->friends()->lists('id'));
                    })
                    ->with('replies')//Here we are joining the replies to the post
                    ->orderBy('created_at', 'desc')
                    ->get();
                    return view('timeline.index', compact('posts')); 
                }

Now, in your View you would need to use 2 foreach loop like below:

@foreach($posts as $post)
    {{--Your Code --}}
    @foreach($post->replies as $reply)
        {{--Your Code --}}
    @endforeach
    {{--Your Code --}}
@endforeach

Update:

Problem is with the postReply() method. In old code you were overriding the $post variable, due to which the reply was getting parent_id as its own id.
So, replace your old code with using $reply variable.
old:

$post= Post::create([
   'body' => $request->input("reply-{$statusId}"),
]);
$post->user()->associate(Auth::user());
$post->replies()->save($post);

new:

$reply = Post::create([
   'body' => $request->input("reply-{$statusId}"),
]);
$post->user()->associate(Auth::user());
$post->replies()->save($reply);