Creaty an single array by a Laravel Collection, but with specific fields - php

Question

I have this Model where I'm calling with
$data = ProcessoSeletivoRDSincroniza::all();
This model gaves me a collection with more than 300 records, with attributes like name, celphone, email etc..
And I have to pass this collection to a API body request, by an array, this array has specific key fields, and the only way that I think about doing this its iterating this collection with a foreach loop, and creating/setting this array with this collection fields, and works ok, but my application does one request for every record, and this is not a good way to handle it.
So I'm thinking if's there a way to create an "custom" and single array with all that records, so I dont need to iterate and make a request by record, and just tranform all this records in a JSON file and send it.
This is my code now:
$data = ProcessoSeletivoRDSincroniza::all();
//$data = $data->toArray();
$api = new RDStationApi();
foreach($data as $row)
{
$events = array(
"event_type" => "CONVERSION",
"event_family" => "CDP",
"payload" => [
"conversion_identifier" => "Name of the conversion event",
"name" => $row->nome_completo,
"email" => $row->email,
"personal_phone" => $row->telefone,
"cf_ps_curso" => $row->ps_curso,
"cf_ps_ano_semestre" => $row->ps_anosemestre,
"cf_ps_data_vestibular_agendado" => $row->ps_data_vestibular_agendado,
"cf_ps_nota_enem" => (string) $row->ps_nota_enem,
"cf_forma_ingresso" => $row->ps_forma_ingresso,
"cf_ps_unidade" => $row->ps_unidade,
"cf_ps_situacao" => $row->ps_situacao
]
);
$return = $api->update_contact($events);

Answer 1

You can use a Laravel functionality called API-Resources.
https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/eloquent-resources
Create a new Resource for your Model:
php artisan make:resource ProcessoSeletivoRDSincronizaResource
Afterwards this will create a file in the Resource folder named; ProcessoSeletivoRDSincronizaResource , in this file you will need to adapt the toArray() method.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Resources;
use Illuminate\Http\Resources\Json\JsonResource;
class ProcessoSeletivoRDSincronizaResource extends JsonResource
{
/**
* Transform the resource into an array.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #return array
*/
public function toArray($request)
{
return [
'id' => $this->id,
//ADD ALL THE FIELDS, methods also work normally: $this->myMethod()
'created_at' => $this->created_at,
'updated_at' => $this->updated_at,
];
}
}
Afterwards you can use the Resource like this:
//for the whole collection
$events = ProcessoSeletivoRDSincronizaResource::collection(ProcessoSeletivoRDSincroniza::all());
//or for single use
$event = new ProcessoSeletivoRDSincronizaResource($single_model)