How to check if multidimensional array is empty or not in laravel

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I'm trying to check if there is an empty array in the nested arrays.

This is what I get from my form.

array:15 [▼
  "_token" => "h4aR4xJlWhZveRKbAgHzgzHWSKSqyhVKb7OHAgWH"
  "name" => "Test office"
  "is_department" => "0"
  "hours" => "1-3"
  "description" => "Description"
  "content" => "<p>Content</p>"
  "street" => "123 Street"
  "city" => "Foomania"
  "state" => "Sweet state"
  "postal" => "98234"
  "phone" => "5748293212"
  "fax" => "2123131233"
  "email" => "[email protected]"
  "additional-page" => ""
  "office_fees" => array:4 [▼
    0 => array:2 [▼
      "description" => ""
      "fee" => ""
    ]
    1 => array:2 [▼
      "description" => ""
      "fee" => ""
    ]
    2 => array:2 [▼
      "description" => ""
      "fee" => ""
    ]
    3 => array:2 [▼
      "description" => ""
      "fee" => ""
    ]
  ]
]

How can I check if there is empty array in office_fees ?

Just to be clear, office_fees will always return at least one array. What I'm trying to is to be able to determine whether the office_fees need to be saved into another model.

I have tried with array_collapse to make the multidimensional array into single array and checked my key is empty or not. I guess, this might be the solution to get what I want. — Ganbayar Gansukh
– Ganbayar Gansukh, Commented Apr 27, 2016 at 14:07

Filip Koblański · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-26 21:33:21Z

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Not sure what You're looking for but:

empty($data['office_fees'])

checks if an array isset and not empty. If You want to check an empty array try this:

if (is_array($data['office_fees']) && !empty($data['office_fees']))

answered Apr 26, 2016 at 21:33

Filip Koblański

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Ganbayar Gansukh Over a year ago

I would like to check whether any of the 'description' or 'fee' is empty. currently, this will always return true as I will always get array within the 'office_fees'

Lu32 · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-26 21:31:59Z

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In laravel 5.2 you can validate arrays

$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
   'office_fees.*.description' => 'required',
]);

Source: Laravel documentation

answered Apr 26, 2016 at 21:31

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