How to manually create a new empty Eloquent Collection in Laravel 4

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JofryHS picture JofryHS · May 12, 2014 · Viewed 79.3k times · Source

How do we create a new Eloquent Collection in Laravel 4, without using Query Builder?

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.

If there are other alternatives, I would love to hear them out.

Answer

Antonio Carlos Ribeiro picture Antonio Carlos Ribeiro · May 12, 2014

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);

OLD Laravel 4 ANSWER

$c = new \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection;

And then you can 

$c->add(new Post);

Or you could use make:

$c = Collection::make(new Post);

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