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title: Using Illuminate Collections... Outside Laravel
description: How to include and use Laravel’s Illuminate Collections in your non-Laravel PHP projects.
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    url: https://speakerdeck.com/opdavies/using-laravel-collections-dot-dot-dot-outside-laravel-php-south-wales-august-2018
video:
    type: youtube
    id: 1l0kO-iaN_o
tags: [nomad-php, lightning-talk, laravel, collections]
type: Lightning talk
events:
    -
        name: PHP South Wales
        location: Cardiff, UK
        url: https://www.phpsouthwales.uk
        date: 2018-08-28
    -
        name: Nomad PHP
        url: https://nomadphp.com
        online: true
        date: 2017-12-21
        time: 19:00 CET
---

Laravel's Illuminate 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 Illuminate Collections within a non-Laravel project and put them to use within your own code.