Laravel Blade how to use if statement for null or empty

Question

In the Blade templating engine, how to use "if" to determine null or empty?

{{{ Auth::user()->age }}}

http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/templates#other-blade-control-structures — lukasgeiter, May 14 '15 at 18:27

score 33 · Accepted Answer · answered May 14 '15 at 18:28

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You can do it as bellow

    @if (empty(Auth::user()->age))
      // your if code
    @else
     //  your else code
    @endif

answered May 14 '15 at 18:28

Vishal Wadhawan

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 04 '19 at 14:02

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you can also use:

{{ Auth::user()->age or 'Age not provided' }}

so you will have more clean blade template

answered Apr 04 '19 at 14:02

Jorge Arimany

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I don't no why It's not working for me, it always returns '1' as result, just like the result of a boolean expression. – brunoramonalmeida Apr 23 '19 at 19:35

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 29 '19 at 20:03

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This works for me:

{ Auth::user()->age ?: 'Age not provided' }}

answered Jun 29 '19 at 20:03

Razi Kallayi

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 01 '21 at 00:35

Summarizing Jorge and Razi's answers, cleanest way to do it is this:

{{ Auth::user()->age ?? 'Age not provided' }}

also this:

{{ Auth::user()->age ?: 'Age not provided' }}

but this one doesn't work (I'm on Laravel 8, this only works with lower Laravel versions):

{{ Auth::user()->age or 'Age not provided' }}

If you try this last method, it returns 1 instead of what you want.

Also check this question: Check if variable exist in laravel's blade directive

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 28 '20 at 21:30

In my case, as I was using HeidiSQL as a DB Manager, I had to guarantee that the column field was really NULL. To do that, I clicked on the field with the right mouse button, clicked on "Insert value", then on "NULL". (It's the same as Shift+Ctrl+N). In the beginning, I was just entering NULL on the field, which is a String I guess, so it was always "truthy", not NULL. Doing that solved the problem for me, even writing {{ Auth::user()->age }}.

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