Laravel Collection Search Item by Key Example

In Laravel collections load many items, to find an element is too hard, so today I will show you how to use key item search the value in Laravel collection. By the example below help you to find item value by key in Laravel collection. I will give steps by step to explain about Laravel collection searching item by key. This is very short tutorial using a function to search an element data from collection. Anyway, the example below we can use with Laravel 6, Laravel 7, Laravel 8 and Laravel 9 as well.

Following step below to use a function in Laravel Collection to search item using key.

Search Item by Key Laravel Collection

• Step 1 - Install Laravel
• Step 2 - Create Controller File
• Step 3 - Add Route
• Step 4 - Start Laravel Server

Step 1 - Install Laravel

First step you have to download Laravel project to your computer, type following command to in your terminal to download the project.

composer create-project laravel/laravel Blog

Step 2 - Create Controller File

Then we will have a controller file to implement short code by example code below. Let's run following command first to create a controller file

php artisan make:controller TestController

Open file app -> Http -> Controllers -> TestController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class TestController extends Controller
{
    
    public function index()
    {
        $items = collect(['fname' => 'Sok', 'lname' => "Sao" , 'address' => "Phnom Penh" , 'spouse' => "Pisey"]);
        $value = $items ->get('address');
        dd($value);
    }

}

Step 3 - Add Route

You will need to add route where your controller file located and the function should call.

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
  
use App\Http\Controllers\TestController;
  
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
 
Route::get('/', [TestController::class,'index']);

Step 4 - Start Laravel Server

Now lastly, we will run following command to start server and launch new session in browser with following URL http://localhost:8000/ 

php artisan serve

Then launch your brower and to see the result.

"Phnom Penh"

Hope this article help you to find item in collection data. Have a nice day!

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