Laravel: Get Object From Collection By Attribute

Question

In Laravel, if I perform a query:

$foods = Food::where(...)->get();

...then $foods is an Illuminate Collection of Foo

Answer 1

Laravel provides a method called keyBy which allows to set keys by given key in model.

$collection = $collection->keyBy('id');

will return the collection but with keys being the values of id attribute from any model.

Then you can say:

$desired_food = $foods->get(21); // Grab the food with an ID of 21

and it will grab the correct item without the mess of using a filter function.