John Davidson

Message:

I have a page listing all articles. Each article has video blocks, and I add this video to the button for a specific article

<div class="blog-list">

@foreach($articles as $article)

  <div class="blog-article">



    @foreach($article->articleBlocks as $article_block)

    @if($article_block->type === \App\Models\ArticleBlock::TEXT_VIDEO)

    <div class="video-button video-modal-button-blog" data-video="https://www.youtube.com/embed/{{ $article_block->video_link }}">

      <span>Watch video</span>

    </div>

    @endif

    @endforeach



    <h2 class="blog-article__title">{{ $article->title }}</h2>

    <span>{{ date('d F Y', strtotime($article->published_at)) }}</span>

    <span>{{ $article->getTotalViews() }} Views</span>

  </div>

@endforeach

</div>

This cycle begins

@foreach($article->articleBlocks as $article_block)

I have 4 types of blocks, and before displaying a block with a video, I need to define it

@if($article_block->type === \App\Models\ArticleBlock::TEXT_VIDEO)

But the problem is that an article may have several such blocks with video, and then several such buttons are displayed in the code, depending on the number of blocks

I need to limit the output to only one block, preferably the very first

I tried to use $loop->first, but it displays the first video for the first article in the list, and the rest is empty

Are there any other options?

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My Answer:
To limit the output to one block for each article, you can use a flag variable to keep track of whether a video block has already been added for that article. Here's an example code snippet in PHP:

php
$articles = [
['title' => 'Article 1', 'video' => 'video1.mp4'],
['title' => 'Article 2', 'video' => 'video2.mp4'],
['title' => 'Article 3', 'video' => 'video3.mp4'],
// Add more articles here
];

foreach ($articles as $article) {
$videoAdded = false; // Flag variable to track if video block has been added

echo '

' . $article['title'] . '

';

// Check if video block has already been added for this article
if (!$videoAdded) {
echo '

';
echo '';
echo '

';

$videoAdded = true; // Set flag to true after adding video block
}

// Add other content for the article here
}


In this code snippet, we iterate through each article in the `$articles` array and check if a video block has already been added for that article using the `$videoAdded` flag variable. If a video block has not been added yet, we add the video block and set the flag to true. This way, only one video block will be added for each article.