Laravel 8: Trying to get property ‘name’ of non-object while returning results

I’m working with Laravel 8 to develop my project which is an Online Forum.

And here is my route to / uri:

Route::get('/', function () {
    $threads = AppModelsThread::paginate(15);
    return view('welcome', compact('threads'));
});

And at welcome blade:

@section('content')
    @include('thread.partials.thread-list')
@endsection

And at thread-list, I added this:

@forelse($threads as $thread)
Posted by <a href="{{route('user_profile',$thread->user->name)}}">{{$thread->user->name}}</a> {{$thread->created_at->diffForHumans()}}
@endforelse

But somehow I get this error:

ErrorException Trying to get property ‘name’ of non-object (View: thread-list.blade.php)

So what is going wrong here ? How can I fix this issue ?

I would really appreciate any idea or suggestion from you guys…

Thanks in advance.

Answers:

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Method 1

This is because $thread->user is null which mean the user is being deleted.
you can use one of the following ways:

1. sort out the thread which user not exists in Controller:

   Route::get(‘/’, function () {
   $threads = AppModelsThread::has(‘user’)->paginate(15);
   return view(‘welcome’, compact(‘threads’));
   });

2. remove a tag if user not exists:

   @forelse($threads as $thread)
   Posted by
   @if($thread->user)
   user->name)}}”>{{$thread->user->name}}
   @else
   anonymous
   @endif
   {{$thread->created_at->diffForHumans()}}
   @endforelse

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