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Laravel 5: Determining if an Object is Array Accessible With accessible

By John Koster

The accessible helper method is used to determine whether the given $value is array accessible. A value $value is array accessible if the value is an array or an instance of ArrayAccess.

#Signature

The signature of the accessible method is:

1public static function accessible(

2    $value

3);

#Example Use

The following examples demonstrate the usage of the accessible helper method. The results of the method call appear above the call as a comment:

 1

 2// Create some test objects to work with.

 3$array      = [];

 4$collection = collect([]);

 5$model      = factory('App\User')->make();

 6$class      = new stdClass;

 7

 8// true

 9Arr::accessible($array);

10

11// true

12Arr::accessible($collection);

13

14// true

15Arr::accessible($model);

16

17// false

18Arr::accessible($class);

19

20// false

21Arr::accessible(null);

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