Laravel Collections Using Pluck to extract certain values from a collection
Example
You will often find yourself with a collection of data where you are only interested in parts of the data.
In the example below we got a list of participants at an event and we want to provide a the tour guide with a simple list of names.
// First we collect the participants
$participants = collect([
['name' => 'John', 'age' => 55],
['name' => 'Melissa', 'age' => 18],
['name' => 'Bob', 'age' => 43],
['name' => 'Sara', 'age' => 18],
]);
// Then we ask the collection to fetch all the names
$namesList = $partcipants->pluck('name')
// ['John', 'Melissa', 'Bob', 'Sara'];
You can also use pluck for collections of objects or nested arrays/objects with dot notation.
$users = User::all(); // Returns Eloquent Collection of all users
$usernames = $users->pluck('username'); // Collection contains only user names
$users->load('profile'); // Load a relationship for all models in collection
// Using dot notation, we can traverse nested properties
$names = $users->pluck('profile.first_name'); // Get all first names from all user profiles
