Laravel pass collection to view

I’m trying to pass a collection to the view but I’m not getting anything.

The page renders blank

$companies = Companies::where('key',$key);
return View('view.name', compact('companies'));

In the blade I have

@foreach($companies as #company)

  {{$company->anything}}

@endforeach

The result is

Error: Trying to get property ‘anything’ of non-object

From what I found this should work, please let me know what I`m doing wrong

Thanks for your help

Answer

You forgot to add the ->get() to get the collection.

If you don’t use ->get() or ->first(), your variable is still in ‘QueryBuilder’ format rather than ‘Collection’.

$companies = Companies::where('key',$key)->get();

return view('view.name', compact('companies'));

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A tip: You can use dd() in Laravel to be able to debug the variable.

For example: dd($companies);