Laravel loop through set of input arrays

Question

I have a design like this,

In controller I am having this code,

$initials   =  $request->customer_initial;
$firstnames =  $request->room_customerfirstname;
$lastnames  =  $request->room_customerlastname;

print_r($initials);
print_r($firstnames);
print_r($lastnames);

It give result as below,

Array
(
    [0] => Mr
    [1] => Ms
)
Array
(
    [0] => Jeffrey
    [1] => Taylor
)
Array
(
    [0] => Way
    [1] => Otwell
)

But what i want is like this in array format or collection format:

Mr Jeffrey Way
Mr Taylor Otwell

How can I get result like this?

Build a function that concats the data based on the array key? — brombeer, May 26 '18 at 09:54

u_mulder · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-26T09:59:34.427

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Not everyone knows but array_map has a feature:

// pass NULL as a callback and
print_r(array_map(null, $initials, $firstnames, $lastnames));

Another approach is to rename fields on your form, so as every group of fields describes a person.

<input name="customer[1][initials]" />
<input name="customer[1][first_name]" />
<input name="customer[1][last_name]" />

<input name="customer[2][initials]" />
<input name="customer[2][first_name]" />
<input name="customer[2][last_name]" />

// etc.

But in this case you need to control indexes 1,2,3.. manually, because just adding [] will not work.

edited May 26 '18 at 09:59

answered May 26 '18 at 09:54

u_mulder

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To expand on that, to get the full names using collections, OP could do e.g. `collect(array_map(...))->map->implode(' ')` – Joel Hinz May 26 '18 at 09:57

Laravel loop through set of input arrays

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