Laravel background-image:url is returning 1

Question

I'm making a webapplication in Laravel. I have the following code snippet:

<div class="user-info" style="background-image:url({{ asset(Auth::user()->partner->background) or '/images/default/background1.jpg'}})">

This is the result in the HTML:

<div class="user-info" style="background-image:url(1)">

What I'm supposed to get is the following from the database:

images/backgrounds/HRVl7TXkAxlhASj14vAV.png

This is weird because if I do the following:

{{dd(Auth::user()->partner->background)}}

it does actually dd() the filename images/backgrounds/HRVl7TXkAxlhASj14vAV.png from the database. Why does it echo 1 istead of the filename when I put it in a background-image:url?

Answer 1

Try

{!! "'".asset(Auth::user()->partner->background)."'" or '/images/default/background1.jpg'!!}

EDIT

A bit messy, but should work

{!! Auth::user()->partner && Auth::user()->partner->background ? "'".asset(Auth::user()->partner->background)."'" : '/images/default/background1.jpg' !!}

I recommend you to write separate method in User for this feature.
Something like this:

public function background()
{
    // your awesome logic
    return $pathToBackground;
}

and then:

<div class="user-info" style="background-image:url('{!! asset(Auth::user()->background()) !!}');" >