Can you split tables in a View during a foreach loop? - php

Question

I am working on a meal plan project, and for visual presentation's sake, I was wondering if during a foreach loop each table with a unique MealPlan_ID could have a break (a separation) between each table with presented data?
Currently, each new meal plan that is generated just adds to the one table.
The View:
<thead>
<tr>
<th scope="col" class="px-6 py-3 text-left text-xs font-medium text-gray-500 uppercase tracking-wider">
ID
</th>
<th scope="col" class="px-6 py-3 text-left text-xs font-medium text-gray-500 uppercase tracking-wider">
Recipe Name
</th>
<th scope="col" class="px-6 py-3 text-left text-xs font-medium text-gray-500 uppercase tracking-wider">
Day
</th>
<th scope="col" class="px-6 py-3 text-left text-xs font-medium text-gray-500 uppercase tracking-wider">
View More
</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody class="bg-white divide-y divide-gray-200">
#foreach ($data as $var)
<tr>
<td class="px-6 py-4 whitespace-nowrap text-right text-sm font-medium">
{{$var->Recipe_ID}}
</td>
<td class="px-6 py-4 whitespace-nowrap text-right text-sm font-medium">
{{$var->recipe_name}}
</td>
<td class="px-6 py-4 whitespace-nowrap text-right text-sm font-medium">
{{$var->Day}}
</td>
<td class="px-6 py-4 whitespace-nowrap text-sm font-medium">
More
</td>
</tr>
#endforeach
</tbody>
I have two database tables that affect the populating of the table, the MealPlan Table and the Recipe Table.
Index method in MealPlanDisplayController:
public function index(){
$currentuserid = Auth::id();
$data = Recipe::join('mealplan_main', 'mealplan_main.Recipe_ID', '=', 'recipe.id')->where('mealplan_main.user_id', '=', $currentuserid)->get(['mealplan_main.Recipe_ID', 'recipe.recipe_name', 'mealplan_main.Day']);
return view('MealPlanDisplay.index', compact('data'));
Is it possible to split the table every time a new Meal Plan is generated with a new Meal Plan ID? If not, what is a better way to present the data other than a table, since I would like to visually present the meal plans separate from each other (as a user can have multiple meal plans)?

Answer 1

In that case $data is a collection, so you can use groupBy()
$grouped = $data->groupBy('Meal_Plan_ID');
/*
[
1 => [ /* data */ ], //Recepies for meal plan 1
2 => [ /* data */ ], //Recepies for meal plan 2
]
*/
Then in HTML
#foreach ($grouped as $mealPlan)
<!-- Init of new table or set pace -->
#foreach ($mealPlan as $recepie)
<!-- Recepie columns -->
#endforeach
#endforeach