Individual profile pages and searches Laravel 5.2 - laravel

Question

Having a real confusing time with this project, my issue is I'm trying to get my search working but for some reason its not pulling results from my query when there is that information in the database, also when I click on the username in the top corner of my page, it should redirect to the user page but instead I get this error "NotFoundHttpException in Application.php line 879:" with the URl looking like this "http://localhost/WorldLink/users/firstName%20=%3E%20Auth::user%28%29-%3EfirstName" and I have exhausted all other means of trying to fix it so I'm back for some help! my code is below Im using laravel 5.2:
Users.php
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Users extends Model
{
protected $table = 'users';
protected $fillable = [
'id', 'firstName', 'lastName', 'bio', 'homeLocation', 'currentLocation', 'email', 'password',
];
public function getName()
{
if ($this->firstName && $this->lastName) {
return "{$this->firstName} {$this->lastName}";
}
if ($this->firstName) {
return $this->firstName;
}
return null;
}
public function getNameOrLocation()
{
return $this->getName() ?: $this->currentLocation;
}
public function getFirstNameOrLocation()
{
return $this->firstName ?: $this->currentLocation;
}
public function getAllAvatarsUrl()
{
return "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/{{ md5($this->email) }}?d=mm&s=40";
}
}
SearchController.php:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use DB;
use App\Users;
use Illuminate\Routing\Controller as BaseController;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class SearchController extends BaseController
{
public function getResults(Request $request)
{
$query = $request->input('query');
if (!$query) {
return back();
}
$users = Users::where(DB::raw("CONCAT(firstName, ' ', lastName)"), '
LIKE', "%{$query}%")
->orWhere('currentLocation', 'LIKE', "%{$query}%")
->get();
return view('search/results')->with('users', $users);
}
ProfileController.php
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\User;
use Illuminate\Routing\Controller as BaseController;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class ProfileController extends BaseController
{
public function getProfile($firstName)
{
$users = User::where('firstName', $firstName)->first();
if (!$users) {
abort(404);
}
return view('profile.index')
->with('users', $users);
}
}
userblock.blade.php
<div class="media">
<a class="pull-left" href="{{ route('profile/index', ['firstName' => $users->firstName]) }}">
<img class="media-object" alt="{{ $users-getNameOrLocation() }}" src="{{ $users->getAllAvatarsUrl() }}">
</a>
<div class="media-body">
<h4 class="media-heading">{{ $users->getNameOrLocation() }}</h4>
</div>
#if ($users->currentLocation)
<p>{{ $users->currentLocation }}</p>
#endif
results.blade.php
#extends('layouts.app')
#section('content')
<h3>Search Results for "{{ Request::input('query') }}"</h3>
#if (!$users->count())
<p>No Results Found</p>
#else
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-12">
#foreach ($users as $user)
#include('users/partials/userblock')
#endforeach
</div>
</div>
#endif
#endsection
And finally my two routes, the problem is connected in here somewhere I just cant find where its going wrong.
Route::get('/search', [
'uses' => '\App\Http\Controllers\SearchController#getResults',
'as' => 'search/results',
]);
Route::get('/users/{firstName}', [
'uses' => '\App\Http\Controllers\ProfileController#getProfile',
'as' => 'profile/index',
]);
The Link:
#if (Auth::guest())
<li>Login</li>
<li>Register</li>
#else
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<form class="navbar-form navbar-left" role="search" action="{{ route('search/results') }}">
<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search" name="query">
</form>
<li>{{ Auth::user()->firstName }}</li>
<li>Timeline</li>
<li>Link</li>
<li>Journeys <span class="journey-num">{{ Auth::user()->journeys }}</span></li>
<li>Forum</li>
</ul>

Answer 1

Defo quoting incorrectly
....
<li>{{ Auth::user()->firstName }}</li>
....
Note closing ' moved to after firstName array key.
That should at least fix the link