Geters item from Collection to new Collection

[sbc640964]

It happens to me a lot that I retrieve an organ from the collection and want to continue the collection methods on it.

I know I could have added the following methods with macro, but still I think it comes in handy with a lot of developers, so maybe it's worth getting into the core of the framework.

$collection - collect([...])

$collection->getToCollect($key);
$collection->firstToCollect();
$collection->lastToCollect();
$collection->firstWhereToCollect($key, $operator, $value);
...

[henzeb]

As some of those are higher order messages, it would be nice to be able to do

$collection->first->collect();

Likewise, it could be nice to chain higher order messages.

$collection->sortByDesc->first;

[michael-rubel]

@sbc640964

You can make a recursive collection of your content using laravel-collection-macros package or just pipe into the collection and collect the values you need precisely.