Laravel, Undefined Variable when trying to pass array from controller to views

Question

i'm pretty new to Laravel and still trying to figure all of this out. So basically I have an array with a list of movies that I want to pass onto my index.blade.php file. Then show that list in my index file. This is what I have currently.

Route:

Route::get('catalog', 'App\Http\Controllers\CatalogController@getIndex');

Controller:

class CatalogController extends Controller
{
    private $arrayPeliculas = array(...);

    public function getIndex()
    {
        return view('catalog.index', $this->arrayPeliculas);
    }
}

Index:

<body>
    @section('content')
    <div class="row">

        @foreach( $arrayPeliculas as $key => $pelicula )
        <div class="col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 text-center">

            <a href="{{ url('/catalog/show/' . $key ) }}">
                <img src="{{$pelicula['poster']}}" style="height:200px"/>
                <h4 style="min-height:45px;margin:5px 0 10px 0">
                    {{$pelicula['title']}}
                </h4>
            </a>

        </div>
        @endforeach

    </div>
    @endsection
</body>

I tried doing it a different way that did sort of work

public function getIndex()
    {
        $arrayPeliculas = array(...);
        return view('catalog.index')->with('arrayPeliculas', $arrayPeliculas);
    }

But that doesn't really work for me since I have a few other functions that use this array and when the array is modified it would only be within that specific function. I've looked for similar questions but I don't see what i'm doing wrong. Any help is appreciated, thank you.

Instead of `->with('arrayPeliculas', $arrayPeliculas);` try `->with('arrayPeliculas' => $arrayPeliculas);` — Guido Faecke, Aug 17 '22 at 23:25
That seems to be giving me syntax error: unexpected '=>' (T_DOUBLE_ARROW), expecting ')' — SoChez, Aug 17 '22 at 23:30
My bad, I forgot to wrap it into an array `(['arrayPeliculas' => $arrayPeliculas])` — Guido Faecke, Aug 17 '22 at 23:35
Ok, it didn't give me an error but it is still saying Undefined Variable — SoChez, Aug 17 '22 at 23:38

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 18 '22 at 10:56

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You should use this

 return view(
           'catalog.index',
           ['arrayPeliculas' => $this->arrayPeliculas]
);

edited Aug 18 '22 at 10:56

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answered Aug 18 '22 at 00:01

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This was the solution for me. Thanks a lot! I'm still not very familiar with the syntax and such. – SoChez Aug 18 '22 at 00:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 18 '22 at 10:49

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You can send the variable with compact because you defined it earlier You should use this return view('catalog.index',compact('arrayPeliculas'));

answered Aug 18 '22 at 10:49

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 18 '22 at 10:51

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your code should be like bellow

return view('catalog.index',compact('arrayPeliculas'));

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