Laravel 5.3 + Sentinel: BadMethodCallException in Builder.php line 2450

I’m trying to build my first Laravel application by following a few guides on the internet and I’m feeling I’m missing something obvious. Here is the code.

Error

BadMethodCallException in Builder.php line 2450: Call to undefined method IlluminateDatabaseQueryBuilder::addresses()

User-Model

<?php
namespace App;
use IlluminateNotificationsNotifiable;
use IlluminateFoundationAuthUser as Authenticatable;
use Sentinel;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use Notifiable;

    protected $fillable = [
        'email', 'password',
    ];

    protected $hidden = [
        'password', 
        'remember_token'
    ];

    public function addresses()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('AppCustomerAddress');
    }
}

CustomerAddress-model

<?php
namespace App;
use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentModel;

class CustomerAddress extends Model
{
    public function user()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('AppUser');
    }
}

CustomerAddress-controller

<?php
namespace AppHttpControllers;
use AppCustomerAddress;
use IlluminateHttpRequest;

class CustomerAddressController extends Controller
{
    public function create(Request $request)
    {
        $address = new CustomerAddress();
        $address->address = $request['address'];
        $request->user()->addresses()->save($address);
    }
}

Error appears after this piece of code:

$request->user()->addresses()->save($address);

Any ideas? Thanks and cheers

Answer

• In .config/cartalyst.sentinel.php, change 'model' => 'CartalystSentinelUsersEloquentUser' to 'model' => 'AppUser' to use your user model with the addresses relation defined
• In ./app/User change User extends Authenticatable to User extends CartalystSentinelUsersEloquentUser to extend sentinel’s user to your app’s User model
• Finally, your controller code should now be

`$address = new CustomerAddress(); $address->address = $request->input(‘address’);

$request->user()->addresses()->save($address);`

and everything should be peachy