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

You are using $post for both the parent post and the reply, hence in

$post->replies()->save($post);

you are actually setting $post to be a reply to itself.

Would also be worth noting that column id is UNSIGNED but user_id and parent_id are not. I presume that there are foreign keys set on these?

Edit

Try this with a new $reply variable.

public function postReply(Request $request, $statusId){
    $this->validate($request, [
        "reply-{$statusId}" => 'required|max:1000',
    ],
    [
        'required' => 'The reply body is required'
    ]
    );

    $post = Post::notReply()->find($statusId);
    if(!$post){
        return redirect('/');
    }

    if(!Auth::user()->isFriendsWith($post->user) && Auth::user()->id !== $post->user->id){
        return redirect('/');
    }

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


    return redirect()->back();
}