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title: Using Laravel Collections... Outside Laravel
speakerdeck:
    id: 8d6b142473e549119a42535067a23a62
    ratio: '1.77777777777778'
    url: https://speakerdeck.com/opdavies/using-laravel-collections-dot-dot-dot-outside-laravel-php-south-wales-august-2018
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
    - event: php_south_wales
      date: '2018-08-28'
---
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.