Laravel Error: Method Illuminate\View\View::__toString() must not throw an exception

There is a very simple solution: don't cast View object to a string.

Don't: echo View::make('..'); or echo view('..');

Do: echo View::make('..')->render(); or echo view('..')->render();

For PHP version <7.4 By casting view, it uses __toString() method automatically, which cannot throw an exception. If you call render() manually, exceptions are handled normally. This is the case if there is an error in the view - laravel throws an exception.

It's fixed in PHP >=7.4 you should not encounter this issue: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/tostring_exceptions.

For PHP version <7.4: This actually is a PHP limitation, not Laravels. Read more about this "feature" here: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53648

Situation 1: Trying to print out a value in an array.

Answer 1: Try printing out the array. Are you sure it's an array? I've gotten this error when it was an object instead of an array. Try doing a print_r and seeing what you get.

Situation 2:You have this associated array like this:

Array    (        [post_id] => 65        [post_text] => Multiple Images!        [created_at] => 2014-10-23 09:16:46        [updated_on] =>         [post_category] => stdClass Object            (                [category_label] => Help Wanted                [category_code] => help_wanted            )        [employee_full_name] => Sam Jones        [employee_pic] => /images/employee-image-placeholder.png        [employee_email] => jon@gmail.com        [post_images] => Array            (                [0] => stdClass Object                    (                        [image_path] => 9452photo_2.JPG                    )                [1] => stdClass Object                    (                        [image_path] => 8031photo_3.JPG                    )            )    )

When you try to access post_images array directly within a View, it throws an error. No. Matter. What. You. Do.

Answer 2: Check in all the places where you are calling the View. What happened here is that I was trying to access the same view somewhere else in an area where I wasn't giving the post_images array. Took FOREVER to figure out.

I hope this helps someone else. :) I just know the error I kept getting didn't help me anywhere.

I encountered error like this when an object in my case $expression = new Expression(); is the same as the parameter variable submitExpression($intent, $bot_id, **$expression**){ check below code for more details.

private function submitExpression($b_id, $expression){   $expression = new Expression();   $expression->b_id = $b_id;   $expression->expression = $expression;   $expression->save();}

so I changed the above code to something like

private function submitExpression($b_id, $statement){         $expression = new Expression();   $expression->b_id = $b_id;   $expression->expression = $statement;   $expression->save(); }

and everything was working fine, hope you find this helpful.