# \[SOLVED\] Use Slim with Eloquent: Call to a member function connection() on null

**URL:** https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/solved-use-slim-with-eloquent-call-to-a-member-function-connection-on-null/655
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** [August 24, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/solved-use-slim-with-eloquent-call-to-a-member-function-connection-on-null/655 "2016-08-24T19:48:12Z")
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### Author: ![didi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@didi](https://discourse.slimframework.com/u/didi)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/solved-use-slim-with-eloquent-call-to-a-member-function-connection-on-null/655/1 "2016-08-24T19:48:12Z")

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Hi, i want to use eloquent with slim but it does not work…

My Config:  
[  
‘settings’ =\> [  
‘determineRouteBeforeAppMiddleware’ =\> false,  
‘displayErrorDetails’ =\> true,  
‘db’ =\> [  
‘driver’ =\> ‘mysql’,  
‘host’ =\> ‘localhost’,  
‘database’ =\> ‘…’,  
‘username’ =\> ‘…’,  
‘password’ =\> ‘…’,  
‘charset’ =\> ‘utf8’,  
‘collation’ =\> ‘utf8\_unicode\_ci’,  
‘prefix’ =\> ‘’,  
]  
],  
]

Dependencies:  
$container[‘db’] = function ($container) {  
$capsule = new \Illuminate\Database\Capsule\Manager;  
$capsule-\>addConnection($container[‘settings’][‘db’]);

```
    $capsule->setAsGlobal();
    $capsule->bootEloquent();

    return $capsule;
};

```

My index file:  
require ‘vendor/autoload.php’;

```
// Config
$settings = require 'config/settings.php';

// Models
include "models/news.php";

$app = new \Slim\App($settings);

// Dependencies
require 'config/dependencies.php';

// Routing
require 'api/newsController.php';

$app->run();

```

My routing function:  
use \Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface as Request;  
use \Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface as Response;  
use \App\News;

```
$app->get('/api/v1/news', function (Request $request, Response $response) {
    $news = News::all();
    return $response;
});

```

And at least my model:  
namespace App;

```
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model as Model;

class News extends Model {

    protected $table = "news";

}

```

I got the following message:  
Type: Error  
Message: Call to a member function connection() on null  
File: /www/htdocs/w0123a251/sm2/vendor/illuminate/database/Eloquent/Model.php  
Line: 3303  
Trace

```
#0 /www/htdocs/w006a525/sm2/vendor/illuminate/database/Eloquent/Model.php(3269): Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model::resolveConnection(NULL)
#1 /www/htdocs/w006a525/sm2/vendor/illuminate/database/Eloquent/Model.php(1858): Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model->getConnection()
#2 /www/htdocs/w006a525/sm2/vendor/illuminate/database/Eloquent/Model.php(1831): Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model->newBaseQueryBuilder()
#3 /www/htdocs/w006a525/sm2/vendor/illuminate/database/Eloquent/Model.php(1801): Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model->newQueryWithoutScopes()
#4 /www/htdocs/w006a525/sm2/vendor/illuminate/database/Eloquent/Model.php(632): Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model->newQuery()
#5 /www/htdocs/w006a525/sm2/api/newsController.php(11): Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model::all()
#6 [internal function]: Closure->{closure}(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response), Array)
#7 /www/htdocs/w006a525/sm2/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/Handlers/Strategies/RequestResponse.php(41): call_user_func(Object(Closure), Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response), Array)
#8 /www/htdocs/w006a525/sm2/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/Route.php(325): Slim\Handlers\Strategies\RequestResponse->__invoke(Object(Closure), Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response), Array)
#9 /www/htdocs/w006a525/sm2/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/MiddlewareAwareTrait.php(116): Slim\Route->__invoke(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response))
#10 /www/htdocs/w006a525/sm2/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/Route.php(297): Slim\Route->callMiddlewareStack(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response))
#11 /www/htdocs/w006a525/sm2/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/App.php(443): Slim\Route->run(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response))
#12 /www/htdocs/w006a525/sm2/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/MiddlewareAwareTrait.php(116): Slim\App->__invoke(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response))
#13 /www/htdocs/w006a525/sm2/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/App.php(337): Slim\App->callMiddlewareStack(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response))
#14 /www/htdocs/w006a525/sm2/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/App.php(298): Slim\App->process(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response))
#15 /www/htdocs/w006a525/sm2/index.php(19): Slim\App->run()
#16 {main}

```

I dont know how to fix this ☹

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### Author: ![didi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@didi](https://discourse.slimframework.com/u/didi)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/solved-use-slim-with-eloquent-call-to-a-member-function-connection-on-null/655/2 "2016-08-24T19:50:14Z")

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Found the solution here: [Eloquent initialization error](http://discourse.slimframework.com/t/eloquent-initialization-error/326/3)

😄

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### Author: ![tomeragain1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@tomeragain1](https://discourse.slimframework.com/u/tomeragain1)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/solved-use-slim-with-eloquent-call-to-a-member-function-connection-on-null/655/4 "2016-09-18T21:04:32Z")

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Thanks a Lot 😄  
this works for me