CodeIgniter Eloquent Model Relationship Class Model Not Found

Question

i'm trying to implement eloquent into my CodeIgniter project.

It works good when i call a model in my project (it give me data from my database). But when i'm trying to call relation for its model, it's went wrong and show this message:

An uncaught Exception was encountered
Type: Error

Message: Class 'application\models\Profile' not found

Filename: /var/www/public/chupspace-git/vendor/illuminate/database/Eloquent/Model.php

Line Number: 750

Backtrace:

File: /var/www/public/chupspace-git/application/models/User.php
Line: 12
Function: hasOne

File: /var/www/public/chupspace-git/vendor/illuminate/database/Eloquent/Model.php
Line: 2638
Function: profile

File: /var/www/public/chupspace-git/vendor/illuminate/database/Eloquent/Model.php
Line: 2573
Function: getRelationshipFromMethod

File: /var/www/public/chupspace-git/vendor/illuminate/database/Eloquent/Model.php
Line: 3263
Function: getAttribute

File: /var/www/public/chupspace-git/application/controllers/UserController.php
Line: 53
Function: __get

File: /var/www/public/chupspace-git/index.php
Line: 357
Function: require_once

I use "illuminate/database": "5.0.28", library in my composer.json

Here is my model

User.php

if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

use \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model as Eloquent;

class User extends Eloquent {
    protected $table = "users";

    public function profile()
    {
        return $this->hasOne('application\models\Profile');
    }
}

Profile.php

if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

use \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model as Eloquent;

class Profile extends Eloquent {
    protected $table = "user_profiles";
}

And here is my directory map.

Let me know if there is missing of information, so i can update this thread. Your help is very valuable to me. Thanks.

Answer 1

You need to load all relation class before use it.

First of all you need to enable in the application/config/config.php the composer autoload. Just set $config['composer_autoload'] to TRUE

Then you need to extend your composer.json to load every models:

{
"autoload": {
    "classmap": ["application/models/"]
}

}

Then you need to regenerate the autoload file (run in cli):

composer dump-autoload

It should be works. There is more other ways to do it, but i think it's the clearest.

Answer 2

I found the solution. We just need to change

$this->hasOne('application\\models\\Profile');

to be

$this->hasOne(new Profile());

Here is my full code.

<?php

if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

use \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model as Eloquent;

class User extends Eloquent {
    protected $table = "users";

    public function profile()
    {
        // dd();
        return $this->hasOne(new Profile());
    }
}

It works good for me.