Laravel (HasMany) doesn't retrieve values
14:04 24 Jan 2018

I have the following models:

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class forum_category extends Model
{
    //

    protected $table = 'forum_category';

    public function posts()
    {
        $this->hasMany('App\forum_post');
    }
}

And

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class forum_post extends Model
{
    //
    protected $table = 'forum_post';


    public function category()
    {
        $this->belongsTo('App\forum_category');
    }
}

in my controller I attempt to get all categories with their posts:

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Routing\Controller;

use App\forum_category as forum_category;


class ForumController extends Controller
{

    public function __construct()
    {

    }

    public function index ()
    {

        $categories = forum_category::all();

        return view('forum', ['categories' => $categories]);
    }

    public function createPost()
    {

    }

    public function createReply()
    {

    }
}

However it seems to only be returning my categories.

What have I done wrong?

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