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16 Laravel Meetup
Last updated Feb 21, 2026
Published Mar 28, 2018
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Event Overview
The 16th edition of the Laravel São Paulo Meetup continued the tradition of sharing knowledge about PHP’s most popular modern framework. This meetup focused on advanced Laravel concepts and practical development techniques.
Presentation
In this session, I discussed Laravel Collections—a powerful utility for working with arrays and data manipulation. Collections provide an elegant, fluent interface for working with arrays and iterating through data, inspired by practices from the Laravel ecosystem and influenced by the work of developers like Adam Wathan.
Key Topics Covered
- Understanding Laravel Collections and their benefits
- Fluent interface patterns in PHP
- Practical examples of collection methods
- Performance considerations
- Real-world use cases in application development
Slides
Further Resources
- Event: Laravel São Paulo Meetup #16
- Laravel Collections: Official Laravel Collections Documentation
- Related Work: Adam Wathan on Laravel and PHP Development
- Community: Laravel News