What is the Difference between foreach and forelse in Laravel

You probably came across the @forelse statement in Laravel and you are asking yourself what it is.

Well briefly @foreach in blade Laravel statement is used when you are trying to loop over an array of things, Say you have data for users stored in a variable called $users and you need to go over them the proper way will be doing that using the coding snippet below

@foreach ($users as $user)
    <p>This is user {{ $user->id }}</p>
@endforeach

But let's say you have no data ?! the array you are looping through is empty what do you do then?

I have experienced this several times when I was looping over a data table showing the various amounts of data. But when there is no data to present the table just went empty. So @forelse solves this by having an empty statement scope that allows you to write something when there is no data.

See the code snippet below

@forelse ($users as $user)
    <li>{{ $user->name }}</li>
@empty
    <p>No users</p>
@endforelse

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