Laravel 8 - Show database results using for loop (not foreach) - laravel-8

Question

Using Laravel 8: I need to display my data (images saved as image names in the db) in 8 columns on the blade page. So if I have a db row count of 18, I would equally distribute the 18 in 8 columns (+remainder if any but that is irrelevant to this q - so, 18 images/8 cols = 2 (+2 remainder)). I can do this using two for loops so:
#for ($col=1; $col<=8; $col++)
#for ($img=1; $img<=$image_percolumn; $img++)
<img src="images/{{$featuredbrands->brandLogo'}}">
#endfor
#endfor
$featuredbrands is being passed from the controller as an array:
class HomeController extends Controller{
public function index(){
$fbrands = brands::join('subscriptions', 'brands.id','=','subscriptions.brandID')
->where('subscriptions.packageID','=',2)
->get(['brands.id','brands.brandLogo','brands.logoLink']);
return view('home',[
'featuredbrands'=>$fbrands
]);
} // end function
} // end class
I am getting the following error for the <img src...> line in my blade page:
Property [brandLogo] does not exist on this collection instance.
To test if I'm passing the data correctly to the blade page, I have tried using foreach to display the images. With foreach, I get the output in one column (so I know that data passed from controller is not the issue).
What is the correct way to reference the image field using the for loop? If that indeed is the problem?

Answer 1

This seems to be much harder than it should be, I am sure I am missing something.
One option - convert your collection to an array, and simply reference elements by key. Something like this:
In your Controller method:
return view('home', [
'featuredbrands' => $fbrands->toArray()
]);
And in your view:
#for ($col = 0; $col <= 16; $col += 2)
<img src="images/{{ $featuredbrands[$col]->brandLogo }}">
<img src="images/{{ $featuredbrands[$col+1]->brandLogo }}">
#endfor
You could also try to do it more the Laravel way, by using the Collection chunk() method, though this also seems very clunky here. Maybe something like:
#foreach ($featuredbrands->chunk(8) as $row)
#foreach ($row->chunk(2) as $col)
#foreach ($col as $brand)
<img src="images/{{ $brand->brandLogo }}">
#endforeach
#endforeach
#endforeach