Posts tagged with collections
Something that you’ll need to often is casting the collection back to a regular array. Like me, you might be tempted to use toArray() for this. But that might be the wrong method to call.
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– alsterholm.com - submitted by Andreas Alsterholm
A blog post explaining some benefits (and drawbacks) of using custom Eloquent collections.
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– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen
Learn about the "ensure" method and how to use it to verify that only items of a given data type exist in Laravel Collections.
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– www.conroyp.com - submitted by Paul Conroy
Rolling averages are a great tool for smoothing out noisy data, helping you to more easily spot long-term trends. This new package adds first-class support to Laravel Collections for rolling average calculations.
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– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
Let's walk through how to use Carbon, CarbonPeriod, and Laravel Collections to create a custom calendar in your Laravel apps.
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Here's Matt Staufer live coding some cool array / collection stuff
– sinnbeck.dev - submitted by René Sinnbeck
Are you getting errors with laravels groupBy()? Here is short explanation of why.
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– protone.media - submitted by Pascal Baljet
The Laravel team released so many great Laravel 8.x updates over the last year, it's incredible! I wrote a series of blog posts highlighting some of the best new features and improvements. Today: Collections.
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– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
This post exmplains how you can work with iterators and generators as if they were arrays.
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A few weeks ago, Jmac tweeted out an excellent idea. What if we could use try and catch in a collection chain?
Collections are the jam. Yet they leave me dreaming of more.
— Jason McCreary (@gonedark) June 1, 2020
Take this block that performs some custom validation logic by leveraging a value object constructor.
Collections definitely streamline it, but what if I could also chain the exception handling… 🔥 pic.twitter.com/4jj0uFgwWb
Meanwhile, Jmac and I did a few code pairing sessions to work on a possible implementation. We've added try and catch methods to the laravel-collection-macros package.
In this blog post, I'd like to share what you can do with these methods and how they work under the hood.
– stefanzweifel.io - submitted by Stefan Zweifel
Stefan Zweifel recently had to refactor an Excel export which deals with thousands of rows. Lazy Collections helped solve all performance problems.
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TIL that there's a shorthand for the dreaded pluck('id')->toArray() combo in #Laravel:$user->posts->modelKeys() will return all related post IDs that are attached to the user model! 🔥https://t.co/imIPlVNjwi
— Alex (@AlexVanderbist) 19 november 2019
S/O to @rubenvanassche for telling me this existed 👌 pic.twitter.com/c3sANn52M8
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Unsung Laravel hero Joseph Silber opened up a very interesting PR to Laravel. Let's hope this one gets accepted.
Whereas the existing Collection class wraps a native array, the new LazyCollection class wraps a native iterator, while still providing most of the methods that we know and love from a regular collection.
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? Laravel quick tip
— Sebastian De Deyne (@sebdedeyne) May 21, 2019
Use ->map->only on Eloquent collections to pluck multiple attributes pic.twitter.com/z3c1sOox9J
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Tim MacDonald demonstrates how you can add logic to a custom collection.
Laravel collections have become an essential part of my codebases and I couldn't imagine working without them. I have found giving collections the voice of the problem domain makes for a much nicer API when compared to the generic collection methods.
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? The "pluck" method in Laravel's collections can take a string with dots to get a list of deeply nested values. You can also add a star to combine deeply nested lists ?https://t.co/qckA0dLw45 pic.twitter.com/3im6dGYoTi
— Joseph Silber (@joseph_silber) October 25, 2018
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While working on a package I found myself trying to combine some data. This is what my code looked like. Assume that $locales and $fields are arrays that are already populated. collect($locales)->each(function (string $locale) { collect($fields)->each(function (Field $field) use ($locale)…
? Laravel Quick Tip: Did you know that you can change the keys of a collection to a given value of the collection? ? Perfect for removing items of a collection by the model id. #laravel pic.twitter.com/kgsVnkFCBe
— Christoph Rumpel (@christophrumpel) 24 mei 2018
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Laravel 5.5.29 introduced the ability to group a collection on multiple levels. In a new post on his blog, Christopher Rumpel demonstrates the new feature with some good examples.
https://christoph-rumpel.com/2018/01/groupby-multiple-levels-in-laravel