How to get the value of a variable from the collection - laravel

Question

public function returnsTrueIfEmailIsVerified(Request $request)
{
// Gets the email
$email = request("email"); //johndoe#example.com for example
// Determine if zero or one ;
$user = User::where('email','=',$email)->get(); // 0 or 1 ;
$userCount = User::where('email','=',$email)->count(); // 0 or 1 ;
$confirmedValue = $user->get('confirmed');
$response ;
if ( $user === 1 && $confirmedValue === true ) {
$response = 'OK';
}
elseif ($user === 1 && $confirmedValue === false) {
$response = 'Not Confirmed yet';
}
else {
$response = 'Not Registered yet';
}
return response()->json(200,$response);
}
with that code I would return a response that if a user isn't registered or is registered and that if he's registered but that he's not confirmed yet..
I want to return something out from that I'm not just familiar with laravel's way

Answer 1

There are so many error in your code, I've fixed it and this code will work. I think you need to learn more Laravel and PHP.
public function returnsTrueIfEmailIsVerified(Request $request)
{
$email = request("email");
$user = User::where('email', '=', $email);
$response = [
'message' => ''
];
if ($user->count() === 1) {
$confirmedValue = $user->first()->confirmed;
if ($confirmedValue) {
$response['message'] = 'OK';
} else {
$response['message'] = 'Not Confirmed yet';
}
} else {
$response['message'] = 'Not Registered yet';
}
return response()->json($response, 200);
}
you can't response string as a json, json is key value pair.
User::where('email', '=', $email) return Query Builder not 0 or 1, use count() method;
you can't retrieve value from multiple items you have to specific item like this $user->get()[0]['confirmed] or use Laravel special method $user->first()->confirmed