How to manually create a new empty Eloquent Collection in Laravel

Question

There is a newCollection() method which can be overridden by that doesn't really do job because that is only being used when we are querying a set result.

I was thinking of building an empty Collection, then fill it with Eloquent objects. The reason I'm not using array is because I like Eloquent Collections methods such as contains.

How do we create a new Eloquent Collection in Laravel, without using Query Builder?

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

It's not really Eloquent, to add an Eloquent model to your collection you have some options:

In Laravel 5 you can benefit from a helper

$c = collect(new Post);

or

$c = collect();
$c->add(new Post);

Hope it helps!!
Thank You!