php - 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 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 1

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 IlluminateDatabaseEloquentCollection;

And then you can

$c->add(new Post);

Or you could use make:

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