How can I check if collection empty in view blade laravel?

Question

If I dd($items); in the controller, the result like this :

In the view blade laravel I check if collection empty like this :

@if($items)
...
@endif

But it does not work

How can I solve this problem?

Answer 1

You could use $items->isEmpty(); or $items->isNotEmpty();

Like so:

@if(!$items->isNotEmpty())
...
@endif

You can further read over here: https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/collections#method-isempty