Laravel 5.2 return no response as JSON
You should use toJson() method.
$categorie = Categories::find($id)->toJson();echo $categorie; // your json outputreturn $categorie; // same json outputThe toJson method converts the collection into JSON.
in your current code,
$categorie = Categories::find($id);return response()->json($categorie); // your json output with returnNote:- You must write return here.
In above code if you write echo,
echo response()->json($categorie);then it will show
HTTP/1.0 200 OK Cache-Control: no-cache Content-Type: application/json {"id":5,"name":"blah","parent":4,"visible":"yes","position":0,"created_at":"2016-06-29 15:23:25","updated_at":"2016-06-29 15:23:25"}
A qoute from http://laravel-tricks.com/tricks/return-json-response:
In the official docs : http://laravel.com/docs/responses#special-responses, need to do Response::json(...) to create json response. Actually, if the returned value is an array or instance of arrayableinterface or jsonableinterface such as eloquent model, you could just return it, it'll be a json, magically.