laravel collection nested query - laravel

Question

I'm new with laravel collection . i just want to make this query with collection
DB::select(SELECT id, user_id, created_at,latitude,longitude
FROM coordinates
WHERE created_at IN (
SELECT MAX(created_at)
FROM coordinates
GROUP BY user_id));
according to the document https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/collections
this what i did and it gives me all the data
$this->data['information'] = collect($response->json()['items']);
Edit:
simply i need to produce that query (that i mentioned above) by using Collection.
This is the contents of $response->json()['items']
"#items: array:17 [▼ 0 => array:9 [▼ "id" => 977777779 "platform_id" => "msaeed" "platform_type" => 1 "status" => 1 "longitude" => 1.1 "latitude" => 1.1 "created_by" => "NMF" "created_at" => "2019-10-27T21:00:00Z" "updated_at" => "2019-10-28T07:58:36Z""
any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

Here is the query.
$data = collect($response->json()['items']);
$data = $data->whereIn('created_at', $data->sortByDesc('created_at')
->groupBy('user_id')
->pluck('0.created_at'))
->onlyKeys(['id', 'user_id', 'created_at', 'latitude', 'longitude']);
The equivalent for the subquery:
SELECT MAX(created_at)
FROM coordinates
GROUP BY user_id
is
$data->sortByDesc('created_at') // we use sortByDesc to produce the same result as `MAX`.
->groupBy('user_id')
->pluck('0.created_at') // then to get the max value, just get the first array after grouping.
To achieve the select statement, we need to create a little macro, i've named it onlyKeys:
use Illuminate\Support\Arr;
Collection::macro('onlyKeys', function ($keys) {
return $this->map(function ($value) use ($keys) {
$tmpValue = (array) $value;
if (is_array($tmpValue)) {
$value = Arr::only($tmpValue, $keys);
}
return $value;
});
});
You can register the macro in your AppServiceProvider.php.
PS. Why you need to querying using Collection? Is that data not come from DB?

Answer 2

You want to collect array recursive
Unfortunately laravel does not have this feature:
you can write it on your own.
if you have helpers file you can write this method:
function recursive_collect($array){
foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
if (is_array($value)) {
$value = recursive_collect($value);
$array[$key] = $value;
}
}
return collect($array);
}
Or You can implement macro in your AppServiceProvider:
\Illuminate\Support\Collection::macro('recursive', function () {
return $this->map(function ($value) {
if (is_array($value) || is_object($value)) {
return collect($value)->recursive();
}
return $value;
});
});
Hope this helps you