Why is laravel showing '[“data”]' on webpage

Question

Why when I use this form of retriving data from the database:

{{$homecontent->where('tabname', 'Maintenance')->pluck('tabname')}}

Laravel shows me the data with square brackets and quotes like this on my page:

["Maintenance"] 

I just want it to give me back Maintenance

Answer 1

pluck() generates a collection (looks like an array here) and with {{ }} you're just printing it's content. That's why you see something like ["Content"]

You could do something like this to print Maintenance :

{{ $homecontent->where('tabname', 'Maintenance')->first()->tabname }}

Or, if for some reason you need to use pluck() :

{{ $homecontent->where('tabname', 'Maintenance')->pluck('tabname')->toArray()[0] }}