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@jlrdw Ok if you read my last answer, please disregard it. It was pre-mature. I think I might be able to do it from my Model.

@jlrdw Thank you. I'm going to play around with this. Figuring out how things are done in laravel is frusturating to me at times. I guess it's safe to say, I'm still not very good at using laravel.

@Snapey Thank you, I'll try this.

Although this is only a project to practice differeent aspects of laravel and won't be on the internet, this is only used to display the roles of each user under their picture on a page. Would that fit the bill?

@Snapey Ok I just watched at video explaining xss and I believe I undstand it now and to answer your question, from what I understand from the brief video of xss, I don't have a form and I should be good because the page will only be displaying text.

@jlrdw My goal is to learn relationships comfortabley (relationships might not be the word I'm looking for) Here's the code I have..

My Role Model. The opposite is in User

    public function roles()
    {
        return $this->belongsToMany('App\User');
    }

My Controller:

public function index()
    {
$users = User::with(['roles' => function ($query) {
            $query->where('role_name', '<>', 'members');
        }])->whereHas('roles', function ($query) {
            $query->where('role_name', '<>', 'members');
        })->get();

       return view('welcome', compact('users'));

}

My View

@foreach ($users as $user)
   <img src="/images/staff/{!! $user->img !!}"  class="rounded-circle rounded-circle-about mb-3">
   <h3>{{ $user->name }}</h3>
   <span class="position mb-5"> {!! $user->roles->implode('role_name', '<br />') !!}</span>
@endforeach

At some point I plan to use this to learn refactoring, which I originally set out to do yesterday, but my failure at this brought up other questions which I need to look up and understand before I attempt refactoring.

As for the refactoring I was thinking I can move the logic to the model and do all the computing over there so I can clean up my view. I also feel like there's a better way do the controller code, but haven't figured that out yet. Hopefully that's next on my list.

@dmcglone27 show what a dd($users); gives. I have never seen implode used like that in a foreach. Sounds like you just need to loop over the data and display in a ul / li tag or in a html table.

@jlrdw everything always worked as expected.. What got me questioning things was when I wanted to replace the ' , ' with a "< b r / >" and the ' , ' worked fine but the "< b r / >" wouldn't.

This is what I originally had

<span class="position mb-5"> {{ $user->roles->implode('role_name', ' , ') }}</span>

This is what I changed it to because I wanted the "< b r / >" instead of the ' , '

<span class="position mb-5"> {{ $user->roles->implode('role_name', '<br /'>) }}</span>

In my mind, the above should have worked fine, but it didn't and that's what set me on the journey to figure out why it didn't work and abandoning my plan to use this code to try a refactor.

Here is the dd()... I expanded the first one so you could see the test info, but the rest are the same, but different users.

Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection {#1301 ▼
  #items: array:6 [▼
    0 => App\User {#1300 ▼
      #fillable: array:3 [▶]
      #hidden: array:2 [▶]
      #casts: array:1 [▶]
      #connection: "mysql"
      #table: "users"
      #primaryKey: "id"
      #keyType: "int"
      +incrementing: true
      #with: []
      #withCount: []
      #perPage: 15
      +exists: true
      +wasRecentlyCreated: false
      #attributes: array:9 [▼
        "id" => 1
        "name" => "David McGlone"
        "email" => "david@localhost"
        "email_verified_at" => null
        "password" => ""
        "img" => "me.png"
        "remember_token" => null
        "created_at" => "2021-07-02 20:47:37"
        "updated_at" => "2021-07-02 20:47:37"
      ]
      #original: array:9 [▶]
      #changes: []
      #classCastCache: []
      #dates: []
      #dateFormat: null
      #appends: []
      #dispatchesEvents: []
      #observables: []
      #relations: array:1 [▶]
      #touches: []
      +timestamps: true
      #visible: []
      #guarded: array:1 [▶]
      #rememberTokenName: "remember_token"
    }
    1 => App\User {#1303 ▶}
    2 => App\User {#1304 ▶}
    3 => App\User {#1305 ▶}
    4 => App\User {#1306 ▶}
    5 => App\User {#1307 ▶}
  ]
}

@Snapey I see, I have only used implode to make an array a comma separated list like a,b,c etc. But either way should work.

@jlrdw This is awesome, I learned when to use {!! !!} and you learned something as well. :-)

@Snapey Makes sense now. Thank you.