Laravel 4 - Get Array of Attributes from Collection

Question

I have a collection of objects. Let\'s say the objects are tags:

$tags = Tag::all();

I want to retrieve a certain attribute for each tag, say i

Answer 1

Collections have a lists method similar to the method for tables described by @Gadoma. It returns an array containing the value of a given attribute for each item in the collection.

To retrieve the desired array of names from my collection of tags I can simply use:

$tags->lists('name');

Update: As of laravel 5.2 lists is replaced by pluck.

$tags->pluck('name');

More specifically, the laravel 5.2 upgrade guide states that "[t]he lists method on the Collection, query builder and Eloquent query builder objects has been renamed to pluck. The method signature remains the same."