Laravel dynamic property not working

Question

I'm using the eloquent ORM in Laravel with a hasMany relationship.

when I run:

Level::find(1)->lessons()->get();

It works fine, but when I use the dynamic property like so:

Level::find(1)->lessons

It just returns results for the level instead of the lessons.

Do I need another setting somewhere?

EDIT: Here are the models:

class Level extends Eloquent {

    protected $table = 'levels';

    public function lessons()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('Lesson');
    }
}

class Lesson extends Eloquent {

    protected $table = 'lessons';

    public function level()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('Level');
    }
}

added the models, it's nothing special, just following the documentation, not sure if I'm missing some other param or setting to make it work. — Rob, Sep 10 '13 at 16:40
Ya, I'm really not doing anything special here and the `get()` call works just fine. It returns no errors, nothing, it just doesn't run. If I echo out the last query it shows the query for fetching the `level` rather than the `lessons` for that level. — Rob, Sep 11 '13 at 07:11
[This may help](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18913560/laravel-4-how-to-access-reverse-one-to-many-relation/19015323#19015323). — The Alpha, Sep 25 '13 at 22:40

Ezra · Answer 1 · 2015-09-25T08:44:07.850

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I just had the same problem, turns out I had a column on the table that had the same name as the relationship I set up.

Make sure you don't have a column in the model that has the same name as the relationsip method you are trying to load.

EDIT: I also noticed laravel has problems with undescores (_) in relationship names, so don't put an _ in the methodname or else it won't work.

edited Sep 25 '15 at 08:44

answered Nov 12 '14 at 16:29

Ezra

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Should be marked as correct. Tested and it's true, at least in Laravel 4 – Dragos Bobolea Sep 24 '15 at 16:30
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This holds true in 5.2; the column name will override the dynamic property. – miken32 May 31 '16 at 18:11
i also had the same problem. in my case `author` didn't worked. after i changed it to `creator` the relation worked. – Mohammad Hossein Feb 28 '21 at 06:54

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 12 '13 at 21:25

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You need to eager load the relationship.

Level::with('lessons')->find(1)->lessons; should work.

If you want to load this relationship every time, you should add this line to Level model.

protected $with = array('lessons');

answered Nov 12 '13 at 21:25

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