Laravel 5 Message Bags: Determining if There are Any Messages With any

The any method returns a boolean value indicating if the MessageBag instance actually has any messages. The method returns true if the instance has messages, otherwise it returns false.

#Signature

The signature of the any method is:

1public function any();

#Example Use

The following code examples demonstrate the usage of this fairly simple method:

 1use Illuminate\Support\MessageBag;
 2 
 3// Create a new MessageBag instance.
 4$messageBag = new MessageBag;
 5 
 6// false
 7$hasAny = $messageBag->any();
 8 
 9$messageBag->addMessage('first', 'The first message');
10 
11// true
12$hasAny = $messageBag->any();

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