Accessing nested array's in Laravel view

Question

Controller Code:

    public function claims($id)
    {
        $claims = Claim::whereBetween('created_at', [
                            '2016-03-01', 
                            '2016-03-31'
                        ])->get();

        return View::make('pdfs.view', $claims);

    }

In my view I'm getting a message that $claims is an undefined variable.

I know that with a single array I can simply access the array properties by callig a variable of the same name. i.e. $claims['id] would simply by $id

However I cannot do this with a multidimensional array, as $claims does not exist

Also, I cannot pass the data as an object using ->with('claims' $claims) as I'm generating a PDF and the library does not support that function.

Any ideas how I can access the data?

Answer 1

Because your array doesn't contains that key

return View::make('pdfs.view', $claims);

instead you can use compact like as

return View::make('pdfs.view', compact('claims'));

Or you need to do it somewhat assigning your values to same key like as

$claims['claims'] = Claim::whereBetween('created_at', [
                        '2016-03-01', 
                        '2016-03-31'
                    ])->get();
return View::make('pdfs.view', $claims);

or you can simply use Laravels way using with variable like as

return View::make('pdfs.view')->withClaims($claims);

Note : While using compact make sure your variable name must matches your string