How to pass multiple data to Laravel compact method from Controller to view blade?

Hello there, welcome to the random post.

Ok, I was looking to add multiple data with compact method in Laravel from controller, here is quick example solution how I did it.

My initial code was like below in one of the controller method I was working on, skipping writing whole function code, posting down what was inside the function and how I turned it out to after on my question search on Google.

Example 1:

(returning single category data to the category.edit.blade.php)

$category = Category::findOrFail($id);
return view('category.edit', compact('category','gvd', 'parentCategories'));

Example 2:

(passing multiple data)

$category = Category::findOrFail($id);
$gvd = $this->generalViewData; //this controller property returning array data to $gvd variable, then passing to compact below

$allParentCategoryIds = Category::select('parentId')->pluck('parentId');
            
// Looping on data
foreach ($allParentCategoryIds as $pid) {
      $parentCategories = Category::select('name', 'categoryId')->where('categoryId', '=', $pid)->get();
 }

return view('category.edit', compact('category','gvd', 'parentCategories')); 

Here you could also note in case if come down here by searching about how to loop controller side in laravel? so from code example you could get the answer.

I am using Laravel 8 for current development.

Hope you find it easy and handful.

Thanks for reading & Happy Learning!