Thanks for your help TorchSK, i really appreciate it.

It's throwing an error when using the code below, am I missing something here?

SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'posts.post_id' in 'where clause' (SQL: select * from `posts` where `posts`.`post_id` = 17)

public function edit($id)
	{

		if (Auth::user()->id == Post::find($id)->user->id)
		{

			return View::make('admin.listings.listings-edit', compact('post'));

		}

		else

		{

			return Redirect::back();

		}

	}

Hmmm... paste the model please

And try if simple

Post::find(1) 

is working

So far ive been using the more generic "post" name, but actually the real name is "listing" in my controllers/models (just to clarify).

Doing a simple Listing::find(1) works fine. But it seems that the relationship is not being fetched properly.

Here is my Listing model:

  public function listings() {
	 return $this->belongsTo('Category', 'category_id');
  }

  public function users() {
    return $this->belongsTo('User', 'user_id');
  }

  public function user() {
    return $this->hasMany('Listing');
  }

Managed to fix it, below is the working code:

if (Auth::user()->id == Listing::find($id)->user->id)
		{

			$listing = Listing::find($id);

			return View::make('admin.listings.listings-edit', compact('listing', 'categories'));

		}

		else

		{

			return Redirect::route('userlistings');

		}