In Laravel 8.81 getOrPut method to Collections that simplifies the use-case where you want to either get an existing key or insert a value if it doesn't exist and return the value.
$key = 'name';// Still validif ($this->collection->has($key) === false) { $this->collection->put($key, ...);} return $this->collection->get($key); // Using the `getOrPut()` method with closurereturn $this->collection->getOrPut($key, fn() => ...); // Or pass a fixed valuereturn $this->collection->getOrPut($key, $value='teacoders');
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