Trying to get property of non-object

[sven22]

Hi,

Thanks for writing this package.

After adding this package to my Laravel 4.2 project I tried to get this to work. I set up everything the way I think it's supposed to be (as others pointed out the documentation could be better). Saving to the database doesn't seem to be a problem but when I want to read I get the following error:

Trying to get property of non-object (View: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/*my view*.blade.php)

Models:

use Polyglot\Polyglot;

class Page extends Polyglot {

    use SoftDeletingTrait;

    protected $fillable = [
        'lang',
        'meta_title',
        'meta_description',
        'title',
        'page_title',
        'page_content',
    ];
    protected $polyglot = [
        'meta_title',
        'meta_description',
        'title',
        'page_title',
        'page_content',
    ];

    // ...
}

class PageLang extends Eloquent {

    public $timestamps = false;
    protected $fillable = [
        'page_id',
        'lang',
        'meta_title',
        'meta_description',
        'title',
        'page_title',
        'page_content',
    ];
}

My blade template:

$page->nl->title
/*
This is what's causing the error
$page->title doesn't produce errors but is, of course, empty
*/

Been stuck on this for a while now. Any help is greatly appreciated :-)

[sven22]

Turns out there's two things going on:

• I should've filled the locales() array in the config file
• In the database there should be a record for the language you're trying to get.

I think it's better to, if a language isn't present, to just return an empty string instead of an error. Is this possible?

Database:

id	page_id	lang	title
1	1	nl	titel
2	1	fr	titre
3	1	en	title

Code:

$page->nl->title // we're OK
$page->fr->title // we're OK
$page->en->title // we're OK
$page->es->title // Returns error. Spanish isn't in the database. Would be better to return an empty string, or default to $page->title? But don't give an error>