Laravel 5: Getting Array or Object Values With data_get

The data_get function is identical in behavior to both the array_get and object_get function. The difference is that the data_get function will accept both objects and arrays as its $target input value.

#Signature

The signature of the data_get function is:

1function data_get(
2    $target,
3    $key,
4    $default = null
5);

#Example Use

If we had the following code in our application:

 1$arrayValue = [
 2  'green' => 'apple'
 3];
 4 
 5$objectValue       = (object)$arrayValue;
 6 
 7$arrayValueGet     = data_get($arrayValue, 'green');
 8$objectValueGet    = data_get($objectValue, 'green');
 9 
10// Supplying a default value.
11$arrayValueDefault = data_get(
12    $arrayValue,
13    'Latin',
14    'language'
15);
16 
17// Supplying a default value.
18$objectValueDefault = data_get(
19    $arrayValue,
20    'Greek',
21    'language'
22);

After the above code has executed, the variables would contain the following values:

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