How to manually create a new empty Eloquent Collection in Laravel 4

Question

How do we create a new Eloquent Collection in Laravel 4, without using Query Builder?

There is a newCollection() method which can be overridden by that

Answer 1

I've actually found that using newCollection() is more future proof....

Example:

$collection = (new Post)->newCollection();

That way, if you decide to create your own collection class for your model (like I have done several times) at a later stage, it's much easier to refactor your code, as you just override the newCollection() function in your model