getting Locale session on Laravel and selecting query accordingly - laravel

Question

I am trying to just select a sql query depending on the session set for the locale language. Yet, as simple as it should be, now I am getting at the View an "invalid argument for the foreach array", that is, it is not passing arguments. Before having the check locale addition, it did return correctly for English, but as I am adding now another language, the IF is not taking decisions because the check session somehow is not properly written or I dont know what. I have been googling and it read like this:
if (\Session::get('locale') == 'en')
{
$listings = \DB::table('properties')
->join('english_descriptions', 'property_id', '=', 'properties.id' )
->select('endescription','properties.id','houses1','price', 'bedrooms', 'm2', 'entitle')
->get();
return $listings;
}
else{
if (\Session::get('locale') == 'es')
{
$listings = \DB::table('properties')
->join('spanish_descriptions', 'property_id', '=', 'properties.id' )
->select('esdescription','properties.id','houses1','price', 'bedrooms', 'm2', 'estitle')
->get();
return $listings;
}
My controller function looks like this now:
public function showListings()
{
var_dump(\Session::getLocale());
$listings = Property::returnListings();
return \View::make('listings', compact('listings'));
}

Answer 1

Make sure you always have a fallback return value when using if-statements.
$listings = []; // this will be the default return value if no condition is met
if (\Session::get('locale') == 'en') {
// query for listings in 'en'
}
else if (\Session::get('locale') == 'es') {
// query for listings in 'es'
}
return $listings;
Now for the locale Session, dump the value of \Session::get('locale') to check if the value is really en or es.
You might want to retrieve your locale value not from session but from the App itself using \App::getLocale();