Creating an empty collection of Eloquent model

[michalkogut]

I've assumed that
collect(new App\Work())
gives me an empty collection of instances of Work model. It does unlit some don't appends atrributes to that model. Then
collect(new App\Work())->count()
returns X, where X is the number of attributes you've added.

How to get empty collection of instances? My workaround is App\Work::where('id', 0)->get() or collect(App\Work::find(0)) but is creates unnecessary DB query

[browner12]

You need to pass an array to the collect method.

collect([new App\Work]);

[michalkogut]

Nope, it doesn't work:

>>> collect([new App\Work])->count();
=> 1

[hailwood]

collect specifically returns an instance of Illuminate\Support\Collection.
You want an instance of Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection.

So just $collection = new \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection();