API parameters not passing

@vincent15000 i put the array in the config folder to use it globally in the project and then convert it into an API to be used from Vue components. My goal is to retrieve the id of an element I click on a page, to land on a new page displaying the data only matching that specific id. I thought that the way to do so would have been by modifing the API in order to get only the corresponding id data. What is the correct helper to do so?

@JustAPC wrote:

i put the array in the config folder to use it globally in the project and then convert it into an API to be used from Vue components.

Okay, then do that. At the moment, you’re not converting anything – you just retrieve the array from the config file, and then you immediately try to call ->find() on that array. There’s no API involved.

I don’t know what you mean by “convert it into an API”. You can’t convert an array into an API, that doesn’t make any sense. An array is a piece of data; an API is a system used to access data. Converting one to the other would be like saying you want to convert a tennis shoe into the act of walking.

Also, if these are posts, why do you have them in an array in a config file to begin with? Why aren’t they in a database?

@kokoshneta cause i just need to store them locally. I will be deploying this site as my portfolio using heroku, so i won't need a database. The api is gonna be involved when I wanna retrieve the data from a Vue component. In the show function I use the array to retrieve all the posts data. Then i would like to get from that array only the post data of the clicked post. I generally used the find() function when filtering the models. I wanted to know if there's a way to do the same thing for the arrays.

@JustAPC No, not really. Arrays don’t have functions the way models (which are objects) do.

What you would normally do is structure your array the same way the built-in config files do: use a nested array, where each key is a post ID and the value is an array of data:

// config/posts.php

return [
	1 => [
		"id" => 1,
		"name" => "...",
		"description" => "...",
		"github_url" => "...",
		"site_url" => "...",
		"imgs" => [
			"img1" => "...",
			"img2" => "...",
			"img3" => "...",
		],
	],

	2 => [
		"id" => 2,
		"name" => "...",
		"description" => "...",
		"github_url" => "...",
		"site_url" => "...",
		"imgs" => [
			"img1" => "...",
			"img2" => "...",
			"img3" => "...",
		],
	],

	...
];

Then in your controller, you should be able to just do this:

public function show($id) {
	return config('posts')[$id];
}

@kokoshneta that pretty much worked out, I had to do some tweaking but got it to work. Thank you very much!

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