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title: Using Laravel Collections... Outside Laravel
speakerdeck:
    id: 76f1718a75a74940b0b028aac8b9f78b
    ratio: '1.77777777777778'
    url: https://speakerdeck.com/opdavies/using-laravel-collections-dot-dot-dot-outside-laravel
youtube:
    id: 1l0kO-iaN_o
tags: [nomad-php, lightning-talk, laravel, collections]
type: Lightning talk
events:
    - event: nomad_php
      date: '2017-12-21'
      time: 19:00 CET
---
Laravel Collections are a powerful object-orientated way of interacting with PHP arrays, but did you know that they can be used outside of Laravel, in any PHP project? This short talk shows how we can use Composer to include Laravel Collections within a non-Laravel project and put them to use within your own code.