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gileneusz
gileneusz

Reputation: 1485

Laravel eloquent gives array of numbers, instead of integers

I'm trying to return id's as a string and pass them via api (using for select later)

Using Laravel resouces:

public function toArray($request)
{

    return [
        'speciality' => $this->specialities()->pluck('speciality_id')
    ];
}

and it returns an array of numbers, like:

[1, 3, 5, 7]

How can I convert them within eloquent query and return like a string?

["1", "3", "5", "7"]

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2140

Answers (2)

Sohel0415
Sohel0415

Reputation: 9853

You could loop through the array, cast it to string and add to new array as it is only required for this specific case.

$a = [1, 3, 5, 7];
$b = array();
foreach($a as $as)
        $b[] = (string)$as;

return $b;

Or better use array_map() - 

$a = array_map(function($value){
        return (string) $value;
}, $a);

Upvotes: 2

Mahdi Younesi
Mahdi Younesi

Reputation: 7489

It's a bit awful, but if have no choice then cast it to string

protected $casts=[
    'speciality_id'=>'string'
];

Upvotes: 1

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