access specific id inside collection

I want to access a specific object inside a collection I got, for example:

$users = User::whereIn('id', [4,9, ..., 14]);

so as we know it will return a collection with n items of users.

but now I would like to access a specific one with the id 9, I dont really know it is in the second location so I cant do this

$users[1];

or what I would have desire is to simply do this

$users[9];

but the array inside the collection it's keys are 0,1,2,.... no matter the object id's

any idea how to access a specific idea?

Level 2

$users here will be an Eloquent\Collection object so you have more options available to you than a simple PHP array. Have a look here – http://laravel.com/api/class-Illuminate.Database.Eloquent.Collection.html

You can fetch a specific user from the collection using an id like so –

$user = $users->find(1);
$user = $users->find(9);
// etc.

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Level 3

:))

And I read the regular collection api 100 times!!

Level 9

You can also do the following to get what you want.

$users = User::whereIn('id', [4,9, ..., 14])->getDictionary();

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