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

Question

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

Answer 1

Laravel >= 5.5

This may not be related to the original question, but since it's one of the first link in google search, i find this helpful for those like me, who are looking for how to create empty collection.

If you want to manually create a new empty collection, you can use the collect helper method like this:

$new_empty_collection = collect();

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You can find this helper in Illuminate\Support\helpers.php

snippet:

if (! function_exists('collect')) {
    /**
     * Create a collection from the given value.
     *
     * @param  mixed  $value
     * @return \Illuminate\Support\Collection
     */
    function collect($value = null)
    {
        return new Collection($value);
    }
}