How to orderBy collections using AM/PM in Laravel

To sort a collection of data in Laravel by a string that represents AM/PM time, you can use the sortBy method and a custom sorting function. Here's an example:

$times = collect(["10:00 PM", "9:00 AM", "12:00 PM", "1:00 AM"]);



$sortedTimes = $times->sortBy(function ($time) {

    $parts = explode(" ", $time);

    $hour = intval($parts[0]);

    $minute = intval(explode(":", $parts[0])[1]);

    $ampm = $parts[1];



    if ($ampm === "PM") {

        $hour += 12;

    }



    return sprintf("%02d:%02d", $hour, $minute);

});



return $sortedTimes;

This will return a sorted collection of times, such as:

["1:00 AM", "9:00 AM", "12:00 PM", "10:00 PM"]