Since starting to work with Laravel as well as Drupal and Symfony, watching Adam Wathan’s Refactoring to Collections course as well as lessons on Laracasts, I’ve become a fan of Laravel’s Illuminate Collections and the object-orientated pipeline approach for interacting with PHP arrays.
In fact I’ve given a talk on using Collections outside Laravel and have written a Collection class module for Drupal 7.
I’ve also tweeted several examples of code that I’ve written within Drupal that use Collections, and I thought it would be good to collate them all here for reference.
Thanks again to Tighten for releasing and maintaining the tightenco/collect library that makes it possible to pull in Collections via Composer.
Putting @laravelphp's Collection class to good use, cleaning up some of my @drupal 8 code. Thanks @TightenCo for the Collect library! pic.twitter.com/Bn1UfudGvp
— Oliver Davies (@opdavies) August 18, 2017
Putting more @laravelphp Collections to work in my @drupal code today. ? pic.twitter.com/H8xDTT063X
— Oliver Davies (@opdavies) February 14, 2018
I knew that you could specify a property like 'price' in Twig and it would also look for methods like 'getPrice()', but I didn't know (or had maybe forgotten) that @laravelphp Collections does it too.
This means that these two Collections return the same result.
Nice! ? pic.twitter.com/2g2IfThzdy
— Oliver Davies (@opdavies) June 20, 2018
More @laravelphp Collection goodness, within my #Drupal8 project! pic.twitter.com/mWgpNbNIrh
— Oliver Davies (@opdavies) August 10, 2018
Some more #Drupal 8 fun with Laravel Collections. Loading the tags for a post and generating a formatted string of tweetable hashtags. pic.twitter.com/GbyiRPzIRo
— Oliver Davies (@opdavies) August 23, 2018
