Laravel Collection Public API: __toString

__toString()

When a Collection instance is cast into a string, its JSON representation is returned as the result. Internally this is accomplished by returning the results of the collection's toJson (discussed in the Laravel Collection Public API: toJson article) method.

 1<?php
 2 
 3use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
 4 
 5// Create a new collection instance.
 6$collection = new Collection([
 7    'name' => 'Flo'
 8]);
 9 
10// Cast the collection to a string.
11$stringValue = (string) $collection;

After the above code has executed, the $stringValue variable will contain the following value:

1{"name":"Flo"}

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