Published in Laravel 5

Laravel 5: Getting Array or Object Values With data_get

By John Koster

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:

Variable Value
$arrayValueGet apple
$objectValueGet apple
$arrayValueDefault language
$objectValueDefault language

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