Loops in Laravel 10.x

Lecture 04

Laravel use loops in blade and controller to run iterations. In addition to conditional statements, Blade provides simple directives for working with PHP's loop structures. Again, each of these directives functions identically to their PHP counterparts

Loops in laravel

All loops syntax which are used in laravel. This is a sample code for practice.

@for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++)
    The current value is {{ $i }}
@endfor
 
@foreach ($users as $user)
    <p>This is user {{ $user->id }}</p>
@endforeach
 
@forelse ($users as $user)
    <li>{{ $user->name }}</li>
@empty
    <p>No users</p>
@endforelse
 
@while (true)
    <p>I'm looping forever.</p>
@endwhile

Break and continue use in loops

When using loops you may also skip the current iteration or end the loop using the @continue and @break directives:

@foreach ($users as $user)
    @if ($user->type == 1)
        @continue
    @endif
 
    <li>{{ $user->name }}</li>
 
    @if ($user->number == 5)
        @break
    @endif
@endforeach

The Loop Variable

While iterating through a foreach loop, a $loop variable will be available inside of your loop. This variable provides access to some useful bits of information such as the current loop index and whether this is the first or last iteration through the loop.

@foreach ($users as $user)
    @if ($loop->first)
        This is the first iteration.
    @endif
 
    @if ($loop->last)
        This is the last iteration.
    @endif
 
    <p>This is user {{ $user->id }}</p>
@endforeach

Nested loops in Laravel 10.x

If you are in a nested loop, you may access the parent loop's $loop variable via the parent property:

@foreach ($users as $user)
    @foreach ($user->posts as $post)
        @if ($loop->parent->first)
            This is the first iteration of the parent loop.
        @endif
    @endforeach
@endforeach

Switch Statements

Switch statements can be constructed using the @switch, @case, @break, @default and @endswitch directives

@switch($i)
    @case(1)
        First case...
        @break
 
    @case(2)
        Second case...
        @break
 
    @default
        Default case...
@endswitch

Lecture 04