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The Splat Operator In PHP And Use It With map() – Laravel

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Today we will talk about the Splat Operator, and it gives you the possibility to add any number of parameters inside the function without committing to a certain number, and although it was not used in many cases, but I found it important to share it.
The PHP splat operator (…) has been available in PHP since version 5.6. When it was introduced I made note of it but have never really used it, so I thought it might be interesting to explore it a little.
Take the following function, this takes two parameters and adds them together, returning the output 

function addNumbers($number1, $number2) {   return $number1 + $number2; } $numbersArray = [1, 2];
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We can call the function using the splat operator like this 

echo addNumbers(...$numbersArray);
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The following function will take different amounts of numbers and add them together 

function addNumbers(...$numbers) {   $sum = 0;   foreach ($numbers as $number) {     $sum += $number;   }   return $sum; }
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This is called in the following way 

echo addNumbers(1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
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since PHP 7.4 it is also possible to run a kind of array merge operation using the splat operator. The following example creates an array and then merges it into the start of a second array 

$numbers1 = [1, 2, 3]; $numbers2 = [...$numbers1, 4, 5, 6]; print_r($numbers2); /* Array (     [0] => 1     [1] => 2     [2] => 3     [3] => 4     [4] => 5     [5] => 6 ) */
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Now let's talk about Collection Map Method
Laravel map() is a Laravel Collections method to pass callback function to each item in Collection. It is a easy yet powerful method to manipulate data in Laravel Collection. After operating on each item, map() method returns new Collection object with updated items 

use IlluminateSupportCollection; // Create a new collection  $collection = new Collection([     'jhon', 'tom', 'mike', 'stuart' ]);  // Change all items to uppercase and create a new collection of them $names = $collection->map(function($item, $key) {    return strtoupper($item); }); /* Collection {#510 ▼   #items: array:4 [▼     0 => "JHON"     1 => "TOM"     2 => "MIKE"     3 => "STUART"   ] } */
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Another example 

$collection = User::get(); $modified = $collection->map(function($item, $key) {      return [         'id' => $item->id,         'name' => $item->name,         'creation_date' => $item->created_at->format('m/d/Y')];}); dd($modified); /* IlluminateSupportCollection Object (     [items:protected] => Array         (             [0] => Array                 (                     [id] => 1                     [name] => Hardik                     [creation_date] => 04/19/2020                 )             [1] => Array                 (                     [id] => 2                     [name] => HD Surgon                     [creation_date] => 03/28/2020                 )         ) ) */
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Finally, you get to use the Splat Operator, meaning map, in an example that shows how to take advantage of these testicles with us 

$collection = collect([['id' => 1, 'name' => 'MorCos']]); $collection->map(fun (array $row) => [...$row, 'tags'=> 'random tag']); /* all : [   [     "id" => 1,     "name" => "MorCos",     "tags" => "random tag"   ], ] */
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