Property [id] does not exist on this collection instance

Question

I am trying to create edit page and this error keeps popping up Whoops, looks like something went wrong. Property [id] does not exist on this collection instance.

Answer 1

You have to retrieve one record with first() not a collection with get(), i.e:

$book = $this->bookModel
    ->join('author', 'author.id', '=', 'book.author_id')
    ->where('book.id', '=', $id)
    ->select('book.*', 'author.name_1 as authorname1')
    ->first();

Please sobstitute $books with $book in the rest of the code also.