Laravel 4 - Trying to get property of non-object

Question

I have been working with Laravel 4.1 to create a book list app with user relationships. I have the user relationships working however when I added the pagination I get the

Answer 1

Try output gettype($book), if you get null in any point

{{$book['image']}} //will not complain about it but gives output ""
{{$book->image}} //will complain about it and throws an exception

I think that's the reason

I'm using laravel5 but I think it is the same with laravel4

Answer 2

I had the same issue and that's how I resolved it. To access the elements in the array, use array notation: $book['image']

$book->image is object notation, which can only be used to access object attributes and methods. try this:

 @foreach(array_chunk($books->getCollection()->all(), 3) as $row)    

    <div class="row">

    @foreach ($row as $book)

      <div class="col-md-4">
        <div class="thumbnail">
         <img data-src="{{ $book['image'] }}" alt="">
          <div class="caption">
            <h3>{{ link_to_book($book) }}</h3>
            <p>{{ $book['synopsis'] }} </p>
            <p><a href="{{ link_to_book($book) }}" class="btn btn-primary" role="button">Buy Now</a></p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>

    @endforeach
      </div>
    </div>
@endforeach     

{{ dd(Request::only('1')) }}    

{{ $books->appends(Request::only('1'))->links() }}  

That should resolve it. What its saying is that you are calling a non object in a way that should only be used for objects. Let me know if it works.