Laravel Model Parsing Array

Question

I have an object in my database that I am trying to retrieve in the Model and parse through to display the text in the blade template. I am not quite sure how to get this to parse correctly. Thank you.

public function getStep1()
{
    $step1 = $this->details()->get();

    foreach($step1 as $step1)
    {
        $step1 = $step1->step_1;
        return $step1;
    }  
}

This gets me the following output that I don't know how to parse through. I have tried $step1[0], but that just gives me a [ nothing else.

[["$50,000-$100,000","More than $100,000"]]

My Blade template is simply this...

{{ $question->getStep1() }}

Thank you for your help.

Update:

When I do a var_dump, it says that my "steps" are stored as strings. Is that what's causing a problem? I still can't get within the [].

array (size=9)
      'id' => int 1
      'question_id' => int 55
      'step_1' => string '[["$50,000-$100,000","More than $100,000"]]' (length=43)
      'step_2' => string '[["Step2-option1","Step2-option2","Step2-option3"]]' (length=51)
      'step_3' => string '[["Step3-option2"]]' (length=19)
      'step_4' => null
      'step_5' => null
      'created_at' => string '2018-10-03 12:29:05' (length=19)
      'updated_at' => string '2018-10-03 12:29:05' (length=19)

$step1 as $step1 will not work since they are the same variable name. do $step1 as $step. Then inside that if $step is an array you'll have to do another foreach loop to get the individual array indexes. — Brad Goldsmith
– Brad Goldsmith, Commented Oct 9, 2018 at 12:24

Nikola Gavric · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-09 12:44:50Z

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Instead of returning double array you can just append results to a temporary array and then return that array, check the example code:

public function getStep1()
{
    $tempArr = [];
    $steps = $this->details()->get();

    foreach($steps as $step1)
    {
        $tempArr[] = $step1->step_1;
    }

    return $tempArr;
}

Your template code should now iterate over an array we have built right now, so a foreach is required. Like below:

@foreach($question->getStep1() as $step)
// do something with $step
@endforeach

edited Oct 9, 2018 at 12:44

answered Oct 9, 2018 at 12:24

Nikola Gavric

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Nikola Gavric Over a year ago

Update your question with code from your blade view

Nikola Gavric Over a year ago

Are you trying to get a list of steps or just step 1? Im not sure from your question

Matt Pierce Over a year ago

From this update, I'm getting the error "Invalid argument supplied for foreach()". I'm just trying to get what's inside the "" ("$50,000-$100,000","More than $100,000"). Thank you.

Nikola Gavric Over a year ago

Then you can access it with $step1[0][0] and $step1[0][1]

Brad Goldsmith · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-09 13:19:57Z

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public function getStep1()
{
    $steps = $this->details()->get();
    $totalSteps = collect();
    foreach($steps as $step1)
    {
        foreach ($step1 as $step)
        {
             $toalSteps->push($step);
        }

    }
    return $totalSteps;
}

answered Oct 9, 2018 at 13:19

Brad Goldsmith

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