How to display something only for the first item from the collection in Laravel Blade template

Question

I have a @foreach loop in the Blade template and need to apply special formatting to the first item in the collection. How do I add a conditional to check if this is the first item?

@foreach($items as $item)     <h4>{{ $item->program_name }}</h4> @endforeach` 

Answer 1

Laravel 5.3 provides a $loop variable in foreach loops.

@foreach ($users as $user)     @if ($loop->first)         This is the first iteration.     @endif      @if ($loop->last)         This is the last iteration.     @endif      <p>This is user {{ $user->id }}</p> @endforeach 

Docs: https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/blade#the-loop-variable

Answer 2

SoHo,

The quickest way is to compare the current element with the first element in the array:

@foreach($items as $item)     @if ($item == reset($items )) First Item: @endif     <h4>{{ $item->program_name }}</h4> @endforeach 

Or otherwise, if it's not an associative array, you could check the index value as per the answer above - but that wouldn't work if the array is associative.