Reduce an array in Laravel php
For Laravel Collections there is a method reduce()for reducing the collection to a single value.
Suppose we have a Laravel Collection
We can use simple php foreach loop to iterate through the items and access to their costs and calculate the total cost like:
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Alternative ( the better way ):
The alternative in Laravel is to use the reduce method.
The reduce method passes the result of each iteration into the subsequent iteration.
Note: This method does the same job as the method array_reduce in PHP does.
