Laravel 5 Collections: Conditionally Executing a Callback On a Collection's Elements With unless

The unless method is the logical opposite of the when method in Laravel's collection class. It executes a provided callback on the collection only if the given value evaluates to false. Additionally, you can provide a default callback to be...

Laravel 5 Collections: Conditionally Executing a Callback On a Collection's Elements With when

The when method in Laravel's collection class executes a callback on the collection if a provided boolean value evaluates to true. It also accepts an optional default callback if the value evaluates to false. Both callbacks receive the current...

Laravel 5 Collections: Conditionally Removing Elements From a Collection With reject

The reject method allows you to create a new Collection instance that excludes items that do not pass a given truth test. It takes a callback function as its only parameter, which determines whether each item should be included in the final...

Laravel 5 Collections: Convert a Collection to a Native PHP Array With toArray

The toArray method in Laravel's Collection class allows you to convert the collection into a plain PHP array. It not only returns the underlying array used by the collection, but also converts any object instance that implements the...

Laravel 5 Collections: Convert Collection Elements Into Object Instances With mapInto

Learn how to use the mapInto method in Laravel to convert the contents of a collection to a new type. With mapInto, you can create a new instance of a specified class and supply each collection element's value and key as the arguments to the...

Laravel 5 Collections: Converting a Collection Into Something JSON Serializable With jsonSerialize

The jsonSerialize method in Laravel's Collection class allows you to convert the contents of a collection into a format that can be serialized using PHP's json_encode function. It follows specific rules for each element in the collection,...