Foreach according to collection attribute - php

Question

I have a existing laravel project on php 7.4.
It has users table, patient_appointmnets table.
In users table it contains both patient and doctor with role_id
And there is a doctor_details table which contain only basic info.
The patient_appointments table has
user_id, doctor_id, date, start_time and end_time
The problem is if do
PatientAppointment:whereDate('date', Carbon:now()->format('Y-m-d')->get() ;
And use foreach in blade
I get appointments wise column.
So e.g if a doctor has multiple appointments on that day. I got same doctor column multiple times.
But i want all appointments go in single column for particular dooctir id.
There is no direct doctor tablebwhich contains appointment. On patient_appointmnets table has doctor_id and user_id
So i want collection according to doctor where it contains all appintment
I could do join like:
$var = DoctorDetail:join('users.id', '=', 'doctor_derail.user_id')->select('doctor_detail.*')->get();
then,
for(i=0; i <= count($var) ; i++)
{
$var[$i->appointments] = PatientAppointment::whereDate('date', Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d')->get();
}
return $var;
but not work. But in dd it show appointments inside doctor_detail collection. But if i do foreach in blade, it shows builder:get() expects 1 for very first get() query..
Any other solution to do same thing.

Answer 1

I believe the key to solve your problem is to use the groupBy method after retrieving all the appointments.
I assume you got the following relationships in the User and PatientAppointment table.
class User extends Model
{
public function doctorDetail()
{
return $this->hasOne(DoctorDetail::class);
}
}
class PatientAppointment extends Model
{
public function doctor()
{
$this->belongsTo(User::class, 'doctor_id');
}
public function patients()
{
$this->belongsTo(User::class, 'patient_id');
}
}
In the controller, you can retrieve all the appointments on that day and group by the doctor_id field, so you got all the appointments belonging to the same doctor:
public function index()
{
$appointmentsGroupedByDoctors = PatientAppointment:whereDate('date', Carbon:now()->format('Y-m-d'))
->get()
->groupBy('doctor_id');
return view(..., compact('appointmentsGroupedByDoctors'));
}
In the view, you can do something like:
#foreach($appointmentsGroupedByDoctors as $doctorId => $appointments)
<p>Doctor Name: {{$appointments->first()->doctor?->doctorDetail->name}}</p>
#foreach($appointments as $appointment)
// Listing the appointments belonging to the same doctor here.
#endforeach
#endforeach