[TriLUG] Fighting a Laravel error. Help?

[William Sutton via TriLUG]

relatedly (and I'm a Perl guy, not a Laravel guy so this is a shot in the 
dark), can you explicitly cast the person id to an int before the equality 
comparison?

William Sutton

On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, Scott Lambdin via TriLUG wrote:

> My instinct is to replace the comparison terms one at a time with a literal
> int and see what happens.
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2023, 6:51 PM Brian McCullough via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I have been running in circles for far too long and finally got well
>> past the point where I should have shouted for help.
>>
>>
>> I am getting an error from Laravel and I can't seem to see what to do to
>> fix it.   I'm sure that it is something obvious and that I am just
>> blind.
>>
>>
>>
>> The error is "Object of class Collection could not be converted to int."
>>
>> This error occurs down near the bottom of the code below, the IF with
>> "$personData->person_type_id".   All of my debugging dumps say that the
>> value is actually an INT.
>>
>>
>> =====================================================================
>>
>>
>>         $peopleData = DB::connection('mysql_ems')
>>             ->table('people')
>>             ->whereNull('archived_at' )
>>             ->select( 'id', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'person_type_id',
>> 'archived_at' )
>>             ->get()
>>             ->toArray();
>>
>>         foreach ($peopleData as $personData) {
>>
>>                 echo "\nPersonType: " .
>> var_export($personData->person_type_id, true) . "\nPerson: " .
>> var_export($personData, true) . "\n\n";
>>
>>                 echo "PersonType: " . print_r(
>> $personData->person_type_id, true ) . "\n\n" ;
>>
>>                 if ($personData->person_type_id == $emsStudentType) {
>>                     $peopleStudents[] = [
>>                         'ems' => $personData->id,
>>                         'first' => $personData->first_name,
>>                         'last' => $personData->last_name,
>>                         'archived_at' => $personData->archived_at,
>>                         'tms' => $personID->id
>>                     ];
>>                 }
>>             }
>>         }
>>
>>
>> =======================================================================
>>
>>
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