Laravel find() function giving error

Question

When I launch a search with an id that exists in the bank, it works normally.

Laravel 5.6

    public function findProduto($id)
{
    $produto = Produto::find($id)->with('imagemgame')->first();
    return $dados_check = $produto->count()>0 ? $produto : false ;
}

but when I launch a search with an id that does not exist in the database, instead of returning "false", it returns an error, there seems to be something wrong with find or something like that.

Symfony \ Component \ Debug \ Exception \ FatalThrowableError (E_ERROR)
Call to a member function find() on null

Model-> Products

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes;
use App\Models\ImageUploads;

class Produto extends Model
{
use SoftDeletes;

public $timestamps = true;

protected $table = 'produtos';

protected $fillable = [
    'titulo', 'status', 'console', 'edicao', 'genero', 'classificacao', 'custo', 'venda', 'promocao',
    'indatepromo', 'outdatepromo', 'quantidade', 'descricao', 'produtora', 'lancamento',
    'idioma', 'legenda', 'onplayers', 'offplayers', 'obs1', 'obs2', 'obs3', 'video',
];

protected $hidden = ['custo'];

protected $dates = ['deleted_at'];

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// RELACIONAMENTOS /////////////////////////////////////////////
public function imagemgame(){
    return $this->hasMany(ImageUpload::class, 'produtos_id', 'id')->orderBy('capa', '1');
}

}

Answer 1

Analyzing your code has some problems, example: when using the find which is the return of information by primary key of your table if the data is not found is returned null and right after you make a with that does not exist, that is the reason for the problem and the exception launched, then within the method at the time of return you put count, there is no such method because it is not a list is a given, so also have to exchange the criticism and solved propror a minimal example:

public function findProduto($id)
{
    $produto = Produto::with('imagemgame')->where('id', $id)->first();
    return is_null($produto) ? false: $produto;
}

Observing: I made a where and I named the primary key, you should also put the same name, I ended up leaving id which is a pattern, but of course the name can be another.

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It can also be done like this:

public function findProduto($id)
{
    $produto = Produto::find($id);
    if ($produto)
    {
        $produto->load('imagemgame'); //carregamento a relação
        return $produto;
    }
    return false;
}

_{Reference: Eloquent: Relationships}