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Fernando Almeida
Fernando Almeida

Reputation: 60

Difference between laravel value() function and direct model access

I'm doing an Eloquent query in my Profession model, i ran an where query, retrieve the first value, then caught only the value in "id" column with ->value('id')

//This always return 1
$profession = Profession::where('name', $profession)->first()->value('id');
//This return the right value
$profession = Profession::where('name', $profession)->first()->id;

Does value() function depends on some other aspect of the query/configuration? Couldn't find anything in Laravel query builder documentation.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1258

Answers (2)

Vaibhav Joshi
Vaibhav Joshi

Reputation: 111

There is a helper function in laravel with the name value . It will always returns that value it is given for example value(true) is true But for eloquent if you want to access the fields either you use pluck function like ->pluck(id) it will give you ids only

Upvotes: 0

Adam
Adam

Reputation: 29079

Profession::where('name', $profession)->first() returns a model. You cannot call value on a model. However, you may call it on a query builder as explained in the docs?

So instead of calling 

$profession_id = Profession::where('name', $profession)->first()->id;

you could achive the same thing with

$profession_id = Profession::where('name', $profession)->value('id');

Upvotes: 2

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