Using Eloquent outside Laravel – Eager/Lazy Loading Related Models

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I am using Laravel’s Eloquent inside a wordpress plugin.

Product Model:

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<?php namespace GD;

use Country;

class Product extends IlluminateDatabaseEloquentModel
{
    public function country()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('Country', 'CountryId');
    }
}

Country Model: 

<?php namespace GD;

use Product;

class Country extends IlluminateDatabaseEloquentModel
{
    public function products()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('Product');
    }
}

I can query any model using standard Laravel syntax: 

$products = $this->product->where('MetalId', '=', 1)
->where('ProductTypeId', '=', '2')
->orderBy('Name')->orderBy('CountryId')
->get();

However I am unable to eager/lazy load related models: 

$products = $this->product->with('country')->where('MetalId', '=', 1)
->where('ProductTypeId', '=', '2')
->orderBy('Name')->orderBy('CountryId')
->get();

Error Message 

Fatal error: Class 'Country' not found in .../vendor/illuminate/database/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php on line 593

So I figured that this must be a namespace problem, so I updated my model code to: 

return $this->belongsTo('\GD\Country', 'CountryId');

and

return $this->hasMany('\GD\Product');

However when I run the query on the Product Model and vardump the results, I get: 

  ["relations":protected]=>
  array(1) {
    ["country"]=>
    NULL
  }
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  1. I recently had the same problem, and it was indeed a namespace issue.

    Try adding only single back-slashes to the namespace strings, since you are using single quotes to enclose them.

    Like so:

    return $this->belongsTo('GDCountry', 'CountryId');

and

return $this->hasMany('GDProduct');

    Also, please ensure that you are using the full namespace. In my app, I used ‘AppModelsModelName’.

    Should it be something like ‘AppModelsGDModelName’ for your app? That depends upon your application structure.

    Let me know if this works.