How to group same values in a parent array? - php

Question

I want to create story for my ios app, I am trying to get useful json response for it. I want to show same user stories in a group inside of that user`s array.
Current JSON RESULT;
{
"current_page": 1,
"data": [
{
"id": 3,
"name": "Muhammed Ali Yüce",
"username": "ali",
"avatar": "1544128196.png",
"stories": {
"id": 3,
"user_id": 3,
"image": "1550228567.jpg",
"created_at": "2019-02-15 11:02:47",
"updated_at": "2019-02-15 11:02:47"
}
},
{
"id": 2,
"name": "Ömer Faruk YÜCE",
"username": "omer",
"avatar": "1544128227.png",
"stories": {
"id": 2,
"user_id": 2,
"image": "1550228407.jpg",
"created_at": "2019-02-15 11:00:08",
"updated_at": "2019-02-15 11:00:08"
}
},
{
"id": 2,
"name": "Ömer Faruk YÜCE",
"username": "omer",
"avatar": "1544128227.png",
"stories": {
"id": 1,
"user_id": 2,
"image": "1550072626.jpg",
"created_at": "2019-02-13 15:43:47",
"updated_at": "2019-02-13 15:43:47"
}
}
],
"first_page_url": "/?page=1",
"from": 1,
"last_page": 1,
"last_page_url": "/?page=1",
"next_page_url": null,
"path": "/",
"per_page": 10,
"prev_page_url": null,
"to": 3,
"total": 3
}
I did tried groupBy func for it but it was not what I excepted.
I want to get result like this;
{
"id": 3,
"name": "Muhammed Ali Yüce",
"username": "ali",
"avatar": "1544128196.png",
"stories": [
{
"id": 2,
"user_id": 3,
"image": "1550228567.jpg",
"created_at": "2019-02-15 11:02:47",
"updated_at": "2019-02-15 11:02:47"
},
{
"id": 3,
"user_id": 3,
"image": "1550228567.jpg",
"created_at": "2019-02-15 11:02:47",
"updated_at": "2019-02-15 11:02:47"
}
]
StoryController.php
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\Story;
use App\User;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Image;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;
use Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator;
class StoryController extends Controller
{
public function index(Request $request){
$userId = $request->id;
$followsArr = [$userId];
$follows = DB::table('follows')->whereNotIn('ismuted', [1])->where('follower', $userId)->get();
foreach ($follows as $follow) {
$friend = $follow->following;
$followsArr[] = $friend;
}
$itemCollection = collect($followsArr);
$stories = [];
Story::whereIn('user_id', $itemCollection)
->orderBy('created_at', 'DESC')
->get()->each(function ($story) use (&$stories){
$user = User::where('id', $story->user_id)->first();
$stories[] =
['id' => $user->id]
+ ['name' => $user->name]
+ ['username' => $user->username]
+ ['avatar' => $user->avatar]
+ ['stories' => $story->toArray()];
});
// Get current page form url e.x. &page=1
$currentPage = LengthAwarePaginator::resolveCurrentPage();
// Create a new Laravel collection from the array data
$itemCollection = collect($stories);
// Define how many items we want to be visible in each page
$perPage = 10;
// Slice the collection to get the items to display in current page
$currentPageItems = $itemCollection->slice(($currentPage * $perPage) - $perPage, $perPage)->all();
// Create our paginator and pass it to the view
$paginatedItems= new LengthAwarePaginator($currentPageItems , count($itemCollection), $perPage);
return response()->json($paginatedItems);
}
I hope you will understand what I mean, Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

Assume you have User.php and Story.php Models
In User.php
public function stories()
{
return $this->hasMany(Story::class);
}
You can load story along with user. something like that
$user = User::where('id', $story->user_id)->with('stories')->first(); //Eager Load
or
$user = User::where('id', $story->user_id)->first();
$user->load('stories'); //Lazy Eager Load
Please read more about Laravel Eloquent: Relationships