while traversing through results in laravel in foreach loop it saves only last element in new array element?

Question

My Controller

$followers = Followers::where('requested', $user->id)->where('status', 1)->get();

    foreach ($followers as $follower){

        $followerss = User::with('id', $follower->requester)->get();

    }

if I had two or more followers for that particular id, but im $followerss variable it stores only the last follower data but not previous data.

Thanks in advance <3

Answer 1

Thats because you are overwriting the value of variable $followerss with each iteration.

You need to declare $followerss as an array before it enters the loop, then in the loop merge or push the items

Push example:

$followerss = [];

foreach ($followers as $follower){

    $users = User::with('id', $follower->requester)->get();
    foreach($users as $user) {
        $followerss[] = $user;
    }

}

Merge example:

$followerss = [];

foreach ($followers as $follower){

    $followerss = array_merge($followerss, User::with('id', $follower->requester)->get());

}