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Laravel Eloquent model events on created user

I'm trying to automatically create a profile for a user when a user is created.

I'm using the created event and overriding the boot() method. But I when call the create() method on user->profile->create(), it says create was called on null. I checked and profile is null in this.

Here's the code:

static::created(function ($user) {
    // it returns profile as null, thus create() can't be used on null.
    $user->profile->create(['title' => $user->username,]);
});

Can anyone help me understand this? It's working in my tutor's code, and he is using Laravel 5.8 but I have version 7.1.

Solution

  • $user->profile returns the related model if any exists. You have to do $user->profile() which returns a query builder to query the relation. Try to do it like so:

    $user->profile()->create(['title' => $user->username,]);