Laravel 8: How to list data on blade with foreach() loop

Question

I want to show some data on blade by a foreach loop like this:

@foreach($topAnswered as $topAns)
    <tr>
        <td style="text-align:right;">
            <h3 class="h5 mb-0"><a href="{{ route('show.question', $topAns->slug) }}" class="text-uppercase">{{ $topAns->title }}</a></h3>
        </td>
        <td style="text-align:right;">
            <div>{{ $topAns->answers->count() }}</div>
        </td>
        <td style="text-align:right;">
            <div>{{ $topAns->likes->count() }}</div>
        </td>
    </tr>
@endforeach

But I need to retrieve these data descending based on $topAns->likes->count() . So how can I add this condition to the foreach() loop.

I would really appreciate if you share any idea or suggestion from you guys...

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can use the method sortBy for collections, learn more here

@foreach($topAnswered->sortBy(function($answer, $key){return $answer->likes->count();}) as $topAns)
...
@endforeach

Some advices:

• I think you should do this sorting on the controller, so in the blade file it is already sorted
• On your controller you should eager load the likes so it doesn't make a new query for every likes relationship, ->with('likes')
• You also can load ->withCount('likes') and sort by likes_count

learn more about relationships and eager loading here