Laravel Collections Using Get to lookup value or return default
Example
You often find yourself in a situation where you need to find a variables corresponding value, and collections got you covered.
In the example below we got three different locales in an array with a corresponding calling code assigned. We want to be able to provide a locale and in return get the associated calling code. The second parameter in get is a default parameter if the first parameter is not found.
function lookupCallingCode($locale)
{
return collect([
'de_DE' => 49,
'en_GB' => 44,
'en_US' => 1,
])->get($locale, 44);
}
In the above example we can do the following
lookupCallingCode('de_DE'); // Will return 49
lookupCallingCode('sv_SE'); // Will return 44
You may even pass a callback as the default value. The result of the callback will be returned if the specified key does not exist:
return collect([
'de_DE' => 49,
'en_GB' => 44,
'en_US' => 1,
])->get($locale, function() {
return 44;
});
