…ples will demonstrate the usage of the first method. The result of the method call will appear above the method call as a comment: The following example also changes the format of the returned message:This article is the start of a mini-series...

…above code has executed, the $messages variable will be an array and contain a value similar to the following output. It can be seen that the output only contains the messages related to the first key:This article is the start of a mini-series...

The getFormat is the logical opposite of the setFormat method. It simply returns the current format that is being used by the MessageBag instance.This article is the start of a mini-series about Laravel's ErrorMessageBag component. Click through...

The getMessageBag method returns a reference to the MessageBag instance. It exists to satisfy the requirements of the Illuminate\Contracts\Support\MessageProvider interface.This article is the start of a mini-series about Laravel's ErrorMessageBag...

…here are no messages in the message bag, an empty array will be returned. After the above code has executed, the $messages variable will be an array and contain a value similar to the following output:This article is the start of a mini-series...

…ag instance for a given $key . The has method returns true if messages exist for the given $key , and returns false if no messages exist. The following examples demonstrate the usage of the has method:This article is the start of a mini-series...

The isEmpty can be used to determine if the collection has items or not. If the collection has no items, true will be returned, otherwise false will be returned.This article is the start of a mini-series about Laravel's ErrorMessageBag component....