firstOr... methods for simple collections

[hivokas]

What do you think about adding firstOr... (firstOrFail, firstOr, etc.) methods to simple collections?

So that we could:

$collection->firstOr(function () {
    abort(403);
});

Instead of:

$firstItem = $collection->first();

if (! $firstItem) {
    abort(403);
}

[netpok]

I generally don't like firstOr methods and and the abort helper but that's just my personal preference. The firstOrFail I don't know what should throw, maybe create an ElementNotFound exception.

The one liner for your specific use case is:

$firstItem = $collection->first() ?? abort(403);

[royduin]

abort_if($collection->empty(), 403);