Laravel 5: Excluding Items From an Array With except

The except helper method will return all the key/value pairs of the $array where the keys in the original array are not in the $keys array.

#Signature

The signature of the except method is:

1public static function except(
2    $array,
3    $keys
4);

#Example Use

The following examples assume that the $_POST super-global contains the following information:

1array {
2    ["first_name"] "John"
3    ["last_name"]  "Doe"
4    ["password"]   "some_password"
5}

We could easily get all the information except for the password like so:

1use Illuminate\Support\Arr;
2 
3$inputData = Arr::except($_POST, 'password');

$inputData would then contain the following items:

1array {
2    ["first_name"] "John"
3    ["last_name"]  "Doe"
4}

Passing an array would look like this:

1use Illuminate\Support\Arr;
2 
3// This would only return an array with the user's `last_name`.
4$inputData = Arr::except($_POST, ['password', 'first_name']);

#Global array_except Helper Function

The array_except function is a shortcut to calling Arr::except. This function is declared in the global namespace.

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