Laravel 5 Message Bags: Converting the Message Bag to an Array With toArray

The toArray method can be used to retrieve the MessageBag instance as an array. It internally accomplishes this by returning a call to the getMessages method.

#Signature

The signature of the toArray method is:

1public function toArray();

#Example Use

The following example demonstrates the usage of the toArray method:

 1use Illuminate\Support\MessageBag;
 2 
 3// Create a new MessageBag instance.
 4$messageBag = new MessageBag;
 5 
 6// Add new messages to the message bag.
 7$messageBag->add('hello', 'The first message bag message');
 8$messageBag->add('world', 'The second message');
 9 
10// Get an array of all the messages.
11$messages = $messageBag->toArray();

After the above code has executed, the $messages variable will be an array and contain a value similar to the following output:

1array
2  'hello' =>
3    array
4      0 => string 'The first message bag message'
5  'world' =>
6    array
7      0 => string 'The second message'

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