Hello Friends,

This tutorial will provide an example of how to remove an empty element from a collection in laravel. This post will give you a simple example of a laravel collection removing empty item example. we will help you to give an example of laravel removing empty values from the collection. we will help you to give an example of how to remove empty values from a collection in laravel. Let's see the below example laravel collection remove empty item code example.

You can use this example with the versions of laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8, and laravel 9.

You have just to follow the below step and you will get the layout as below:

This is optional; however, if you have not created the laravel app, then you may go ahead and execute the below command:

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\RemoveEmptyController;

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/

Route::get('/index',[RemoveEmptyController::class, 'index']);

we will create RemoveEmptyController. so you can see the below code with output:

php artisan make:controller RemoveEmptyController

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class RemoveEmptyController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
    */
    public function index()
    {
        $collection = collect([
            [],
            ['Rowan'],
            [],
            [],
            ]);

        $newCollection = $collection->filter();
        
        dd($newCollection);

    }
}

Start the development server. Use the PHP artisan serve command and start your server:

php artisan serve

Now you are ready to run our example so run the below command to quick run.

http://localhost:8000/index

#items: array:1 [▼
    1 => array:1 [▼
        0 => "Rowan"
    ]
]

I hope it can help you...