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title: 'You can return custom collections from Eloquent queries'
tweet_id: '1466810189018185728'
thread_slug: weekly-thread-2021-48
author_username: freekmurze
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created_at: 2021-12-03T16:42:55+00:00
slug: you-can-return-custom-collections-from-eloquent-queries
---
If you want to have Eloquent return a custom collection class (so you can define methods of your own on it, you can the `newCollection` method on your model.

More in this excellent post by @timacdonald87 
https://timacdonald.me/giving-collections-a-voice/

#laravel #php