Laravel 5 Collections: Determining If a Collection Has An Element With has

The has method in Laravel's Collection class allows you to check if an item exists in the collection based on a given key. It returns true if the item exists and false if it does not. You can easily use this method to determine the presence of...

Laravel 5 Collections: Determining the Most Common Value in a Collection With mode

The mode method in PHP's collection class allows you to find the value that appears most often in a dataset. You can optionally specify a key to determine the mode based on specific data fields. For example, you can find the most common number of...

Laravel 5 Collections: Dumping the Collection Contents and Continuing Script Execution for Debugging With dump

The dump method in Laravel is used to display the contents of a collection for debugging purposes. Unlike the dd method, the dump method does not stop the execution of the script. It behaves similarly to PHP's var_dump function.

Laravel 5 Collections: Dumping the Collection Contents and Stopping Script Execution for Debugging With dd

The dd method in Laravel dumps the contents of a collection and stops the execution of the script. It acts exclusively on the collection's internal array and provides a helpful way to debug your code. You can use it to inspect the contents of a...

Laravel 5 Collections: Ensuring a Collection Always Contains a Specified Number of Elements With pad

The pad method pads the elements of the collection up to the desired size with the specified value. It returns a new collection without modifying the original collection. The behavior of this method is similar to PHP's array_pad function. In the...

Laravel 5 Collections: Excluding Collection Elements With except

The except method in Laravel allows you to retrieve all key/value pairs from a collection except for the ones specified in the given array. You can easily remove sensitive data by combining except with the toJson method and send the modified...