Could a way to loop through a query for a regular schedule i.e. $openingHours->forWeek(); be included within the Usage section please?

[JeftaChibiya]

Attemping to use a foreach loop to display the results of the query: $openingHours->forWeek(); returns an empty result. On the other hand, dd($openingHours->forWeek()) returns the array as expected.

[sebastiandedeyne]

That's really odd, since the method simply returns an array. Could you share a full code snippet that doesn't work as expected, or PR a failing test?

[JeftaChibiya]

Sure! Here's what I have:

The method in controller:

  public function about()
    {
        $openingHours = OpeningHours::create([
            'monday' => ['09:00-12:00', '13:00-18:00'],
            'tuesday' => ['09:00-12:00', '13:00-18:00'],
            'wednesday' => ['09:00-12:00'],
            'thursday' => ['09:00-12:00', '13:00-18:00'],
            'friday' => ['09:00-12:00', '13:00-20:00'],
            'saturday' => ['09:00-12:00', '13:00-16:00'],
            'sunday' => [],
            'exceptions' => [
                '08-26' => ['10:00-20:00'],
                '01-01' => [], // Recurring on each 1st of january
                '12-25' => ['09:00-12:00'], // Recurring on each 25th of december
            ],  
        ]);

        $thisWeek = $openingHours->forWeek(); 
        
        return view('about', compact('thisWeek'));        
    }

And in the view:

      @foreach($thisWeek as $day)
           {{ $day }}
         //  I'm actually not too sure what attributes I can extract from each single item here
      @endforeach

Result:
ErrorException: htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given

[JeftaChibiya]

I really appreciate your time and help @sebastiandedeyne.
Could you please share with me an example of how you would loop through it?

Thanks!

[sebastiandedeyne]

@foreach($thisWeek as $day => $openingHours)
           {{ $day }}
@endforeach

$day will contain the day name. openingHours will be an object containing the hours for that day. Refer to the OpeningHoursForDay class to see what you can extract from it :)

https://github.com/spatie/opening-hours/blob/master/src/OpeningHoursForDay.php