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Laravel Collection Public API: __toString

By John Koster

__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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