Custom sorting on a laravel relationship collection

Question

I\'m a little stuck on something that usually is quite straight forward. I need to sort records from a hasMany relationship into a custom order based on a certain value and an \

Answer 1

The usort equivalent for Collection is the sort() method. It takes a callback as a parameter and returns the sorted collection.

So in your case, the solution is:

$go = $go->sort(function ($a, $b) use ($order) {
  $pos_a = array_search($a->colour, $order);
  $pos_b = array_search($b->colour, $order);
  return $pos_a - $pos_b;
});