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<h3>Enums are coming to PHP 8.1!</h3>

You've probably used enums one way or another in your code. Mine most often looked like this:

```php
/**
* @method static self draft()
* @method static self published()
* @method static self archived()
  */
  class StatusEnum extends Enum {}
  ```

That's my own enum implementation I wrote a few years ago. There's of course also the very popular [myclabs/php-enum](https://github.com/myclabs/php-enum), written by Matthieu Napoli.

Whichever userland enum implementation you used, you'll be happy to hear enums will be built into PHP 8.1 from now on! They look something like this:

```php
enum Status {
    case draft;
    case published;
    case archived;
}
```

That's better, right? It doesn't stop there, by the way. You can also add methods to enums, which is especially useful combined with PHP 8's match operator:

```php
enum Status {
    case draft;
    case published;
    case archived;

    public function color(): string
    {
        return match($this) {
            Status::draft = 'grey',
            Status::published = 'green',
            Status::archived = 'red',
        };
    }
}
```

Also, there's the possibility to assign string or integer values to enums, which makes them so-called "backed enums":

```php
enum Status: string {
    case draft = 'draft';
    case published = 'published';
    case archived = 'archived';
}
```

Finally, you're probably wondering how enums are used in practice? You can type-hint them just like any other object:
```php
class BlogPost
{
    public function __construct(public Status $status) {}
}
```

And you can create and pass them like so:

```php
$post = new BlogPost(Status::draft);
```

Enums, they are one of those things that we've wanted for ages, and where we kind of got used to userland solutions. 

This addition is a breath of fresh air, it's one of those feature where we'll look back two years from now and wonder how we ever lived without them.


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If you need to check if a collection is empty in Laravel, there are a few different ways you can do this.

## One way is to use the **count()** method:

```php
$collection = collect([1, 2, 3]);

if ($collection->count()) {
// The collection is not empty...
}
```

## Another way is to use the **isEmpty()** method:

```php
$collection = collect([]);

if ($collection->isEmpty()) {
// The collection is empty...
}
```

## You can also use the **empty()** function:

```php
$collection = collect([]);

if (empty($collection)) {
// The collection is empty...
}
```

## Finally, you can use the **count()** method on the collection itself:

```php
$collection = collect([]);

if ($collection->count()) {
// The collection is not empty...
}
```


So there you have it - four different ways to check if a collection is empty in Laravel.


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