Call to a member function paymentMethods() on null

Question

I am working on creating a subscription module in laravel and facing this issue "Call to a member function paymentMethods() on null". Here is my code can anyone suggest to me why I am facing this issue.

Call to a member function payment methods() on null

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\Models\plan;
use Stripe;
use Exception;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\User;
use Session;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash;

class PlanController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $plans = Plan::all();
        return view('plans.index', compact('plans'));
    }

      
     
   
    public function show(plan $plan, Request $request)
    {   
        $paymentMethods = $request->user()->paymentMethods();

        $intent = $request->user()->createSetupIntent();

      
        return view('plans.show', compact('plan', 'intent'));
    }
}

Answer 1

Do you have $request->user() configured? Perhaps you meant Auth::user()

Try Auth::user()->paymentMethods(); instead