Searching an array In Laravel - php

Question

I been getting two arrays and merging them and then looking for a certain value under name but can't seem to get it working
$temp = [
['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Taylor'],
['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Abigail'],
];
$temp1 = [
['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Taylor'],
['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Taylor'],
];
$ggg = array_merge($temp,$temp1);

Answer 1

Use the contains() method of a collection. The schema:
collect($array1) // Create a collection from the first array
->merge($array2) // merge it with the second array
->contains($key, $value); // returns boolean
Your code:
$temp = [
['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Taylor'],
['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Abigail'],
];
$temp1 = [
['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Taylor'],
['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Taylor'],
];
collect($temp)->merge($temp1)->contains('name', 'Taylor'); // true
collect($temp)->merge($temp1)->contains('name', 'Jane'); // false
If you want to get the items who are matching the criteria, use where():
$result = collect($temp)->merge($temp1)->where('name', 'Taylor');
This will return:
Collection {#465 ▼
#items: array:3 [▼
0 => array:2 [▼
"id" => 3
"name" => "Taylor"
]
2 => array:2 [▼
"id" => 3
"name" => "Taylor"
]
3 => array:2 [▼
"id" => 3
"name" => "Taylor"
]
]
}

Answer 2

Use print_r($ggg) to print the resulting array. Referring to the name part you should use $ggg[0]['name'] for example. Not sure what is your final goal for merging the 2 arrays, do you want an array with all 4 elements ? The way you are doing it you will end up with only 2 elements, index 0 of $temp1 will overwrite index 0 of $temp, same thing with index 1.

Answer 3

I have tried and maybe this will help you.
$temp = [
['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Taylor'],
['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Abigail'],
];
$temp1 = [
['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Taylor'],
['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Taylor'],
];
$ggg = array_merge($temp,$temp1);
foreach ($ggg as $key) {
echo "ID: ".$key['id']."<br>";
echo "NAME: ".$key['name']."<br>";
}

Answer 4

I think you want something like below. Since you tagged this as Laravel I've done it with laravel specific code, but it would be possible to use native PHP too.
$temp = [
['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Taylor'],
['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Abigail'],
];
$temp1 = [
['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Taylor'],
['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Taylor'],
];
$item = collect($temp)->merge($temp1)->first(function ($item) {
return $item['name'] == 'Taylor';
});