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

Since I don't need to loop entire collection, I think it is better to have helper function like this

/**
 * Check if there is a item in a collection by given key and value
 * @param Illuminate\Support\Collection $collection collection in which search is to be made
 * @param string $key name of key to be checked
 * @param string $value value of key to be checkied
 * @return boolean|object false if not found, object if it is found
 */
function findInCollection(Illuminate\Support\Collection $collection, $key, $value) {
    foreach ($collection as $item) {
        if (isset($item->$key) && $item->$key == $value) {
            return $item;
        }
    }
    return FALSE;
}