Laravel Blade foreach "trick": splitting results into chunks

Imagine a situation that you have 10 records to show in Blade but you need to show them in 2 sections, five records each. There's a pretty nice trick how to do that in @foreach loop.

To rephrase - you have array of 10 records but you want to show them like this:

Section 1

• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3
• Item 4
• Item 5

Section 2

• Item 6
• Item 7
• Item 8
• Item 9
• Item 10

Straightforward way - you can use a $loop variable for this:

@foreach($items as $item)
    @if($loop->first or $loop->iteration % 5 == 0)
        <ul>
    @endif
    <li>
        Item {{ $loop->iteration }}
    </li>
    @if($loop->last == true or $loop->iteration % 5 == 0)
        </ul>
    @endif
@endforeach

But there's a better way - to use chunk() function of Collections.

@foreach($items->chunk(5) as $chunk)
    <ul>
        @foreach($chunk as $item)
            Item {{ $loop->iteration }}
        @endforeach
    </ul>
@endforeach

You can read more about chunk() method here.

Also, I've written this article a while ago: Process big DB table with chunk() method