Laravel Eloquent Ignore Casing

Question

I am trying to run a query using Eloquent the $vars[\'language\'] is in lower case but the language column is not necessarily in lower case. How can i do this search using e

Answer 1

The filter() collection method can be useful if you are trying to find a laravel-based solution :

// $this refers to an instance of an eloquent User Model
$name = 'BiLbo baGGings';    
return $this->contactInformation->filter(function($value, $key) use($name) { 
   if(strtolower($value->name) == strtolower($name)) {
       return $value;
   }
 });