Better way to access Laravel array inputs?

Question

Currently I have an array sort. Sort has only one key / value. The keys and values are always different. This array always has just 1 key/value pair. How do I access both elements dynamically in laravel?

I have already solved this but think it is extremely inefficient.

my current solution

I made a function orderQuery() to return the key name.

function orderQuery() {
    foreach (Input::get('sort') as $key => $value) {
        return $key; // there is only 1 item in the array but this looks like bad practice
    }
}

Then I call it like this to respond to my request

->orderBy(orderQuery(), Input::get('sort.'.orderQuery()))

Is there a better way to do this?

lukasgeiter · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-16 07:49:46Z

1

You can use key()

$key = key(Input::get('sort'));

If you want to be save reset the pointer first:

$sort = Input::get('sort');
reset($sort);
$key = key($sort);

answered Jan 16, 2015 at 7:49

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Rafael Over a year ago

Thank you, this seems much cleaner and better practice. I am using $value = Input::get("sort.$key"); to get the value from key now. :)

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