Log username in a table on a webpage

[JR-Vermeer]

Hello,

I have a table on my webpage where I log the activities from users. But I have a question now. How do I log the name of the person who changed something? I unfortunately couldn't figure it out with the docs.

Kind Regards,
Hennie

[Gummibeer]

Hey, you can use the causer relationship.

$activities = $poster->activities->load('causer');

foreach($activities as $activity) {
    echo $activity->causer->name;
}

[JR-Vermeer]

Thank you for your quick response! Where should I place this piece of code? In my controller, my blade or my model?

[Gummibeer]

The first line is the eager loading of the relationship (preventing n+1 queries).
https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/eloquent-relationships#eager-loading

The foreach loop is plain PHP but could be transformed to blade. Important is the $activity->causer->xyz. causeris the relationship that resolves to your cause - likely the user model. Andnameorxyzis the attribute you want to access on that causer instance. Keep in mind that thecauser` is optional - in case you are on PHP8 you can solve this by using the PHP8 null safe operator.
https://stitcher.io/blog/php-8-nullsafe-operator

[JR-Vermeer]

I'm getting this error now 😬
(Sorry for bothering you, it's for a school project, I'm new to programming)

[Gummibeer]

In your examples it's likely $events - you will have to pass the variable/data to the view to use it.
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