By John Koster
except($keys)
The except
method will return all the key/value pairs in the collection where the keys in the collection are not in the supplied $keys
array. Internally, this method makes a call to the Illuminate\Support\Arr:except($array, $keys)
helper function.
The following example demonstrates the usage of the except
method:
1<?php
2
3// Create a new collection.
4$collection = collect([
5 'first_name' => 'John',
6 'last_name' => 'Doe',
7 'password' => 'some_password'
8]);
9
10// Retrieve all items from the collect
11// except for the password.
12$data = $collection->except(['password']);
After the above code has executed, the $data
variable would contain a value similar to the following output:
1Collection {
2 #items: array:2 [
3 "first_name" => "John"
4 "last_name" => "Doe"
5 ]
6}
We can also combine the except
method with the toJson
method to easily remove sensitive data from information before sending it to an end user:
1<?php
2
3$jsonData = $collection->except(['password'])->toJson();
After the above code has executed, the $jsonData
variable would hold a value similar to the following JSON string:
1"{"first_name":"John","last_name":"Doe"}"
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