The any method returns a boolean value indicating if the MessageBag instance actually has any messages. The method returns true if the instance has messages, otherwise it returns false. The following code examples demonstrate the usage of this fairly simple method:

 1<?php
 2 
 3use Illuminate\Support\MessageBag;
 4 
 5// Create a new MessageBag instance.
 6$messageBag = new MessageBag;
 7 
 8// false
 9$hasAny = $messageBag->any();
10 
11$messageBag->addMessage('first', 'The first message');
12 
13// true
14$hasAny = $messageBag->any();

#Continue Reading

This article is the start of a mini-series about Laravel's ErrorMessageBag component. Click through the rest of the articles to continue reading:

• An Introduction to Laravel Message Bags
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: add
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: all
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: any
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: count
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: first
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: get
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: getFormat
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: getMessageBag
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: getMessages
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: has
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: isEmpty
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: jsonSerialize
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: keys
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: merge
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: setFormat
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: toArray
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: toJson
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: __toString

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