Laravel PHP move collection item to the top of the collections

Question

This is just in case someone else has the same question and like me did not find a suitable answer to solve it.

I had a collection that had to be filtered so the active item comes first on the collections when a certain value was passed.

Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection {
    0 => array:2 [
      "id" => 1
      "name" => "Bogan, Weissnat and Jenkins"
    ]
    1 => array:2 [
      "id" => 4
      "name" => "Grady-Barrows"
    ]
    2 => array:2 [
      "id" => 7
      "name" => "Howe and Sons"
    ]
    3 => array:2 [
      "id" => 3
      "name" => "Macejkovic-Altenwerth"
    ]
  ]
}

Needed to move an item top based on the id which is passed by URL

Answer 1

$activeId = 3; // Your active item id
$collection = $collection
      ->sortBy('id')
      ->sortBy(fn($item) => $item->id !== $activeId);

This will sort your collection by id and move a specific item to the top.

(PHP7.4+ for arrow function)