diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 2af8b63..d11de87 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -26,5 +26,8 @@
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "phpunit/phpunit": "4.1.*"
+    },
+    "suggest": {
+        "illuminate/support": "Fluent array interface for map functions"
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/Csv.php b/src/Csv.php
index 1143140..f3c6bd8 100644
--- a/src/Csv.php
+++ b/src/Csv.php
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 namespace ParseCsv;
 
+use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
 use ParseCsv\enums\FileProcessingModeEnum;
 use ParseCsv\enums\SortEnum;
 use ParseCsv\extensions\DatatypeTrait;
@@ -17,7 +18,6 @@ class Csv {
     Based on the concept of Ming Hong Ng's CsvFileParser class:
     - http://minghong.blogspot.com/2006/07/csv-parser-for-php.html
 
-
     (The MIT license)
 
     Copyright (c) 2014 Jim Myhrberg.
@@ -564,7 +564,6 @@ class Csv {
             - substr_count($data, "\r\n")
             - $headingRow;
 
-
         return $count;
     }
 
@@ -1206,7 +1205,7 @@ class Csv {
      * first line containing only "sep=;", where the last character is the
      * separator. Microsoft Excel is able to open such files.
      *
-     * @param string $data    file data
+     * @param string $data file data
      *
      * @return string|false detected delimiter, or false if none found
      */
@@ -1224,7 +1223,7 @@ class Csv {
     /**
      * Support for Excel-compatible sep=? row.
      *
-     * @param string $data_string    file data to be updated
+     * @param string $data_string file data to be updated
      *
      * @return bool TRUE if sep= line was found at the very beginning of the file
      */
@@ -1320,4 +1319,29 @@ class Csv {
         ksort($filtered);
         $this->delimiter = reset($filtered);
     }
+
+    /**
+     * getCollection
+     * Returns a Illuminate/Collection object
+     * This may prove to be helpful to people who want to
+     * create macros, and or use map functions
+     *
+     * @access public
+     * @link   https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/collections
+     *
+     * @throws \ErrorException - If the Illuminate\Support\Collection class is not found
+     *
+     * @return Collection
+     */
+    public function getCollection() {
+        //does the Illuminate\Support\Collection class exists?
+        //this uses the autoloader to try to determine
+        //@see http://php.net/manual/en/function.class-exists.php
+        if (class_exists('Illuminate\Support\Collection', true) == false) {
+            throw new \ErrorException('It would appear you have not installed the illuminate/support package!');
+        }
+
+        //return the collection
+        return new Collection($this->data);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/tests/methods/ConstructTest.php b/tests/methods/ConstructTest.php
index c9d9db4..35ddd33 100644
--- a/tests/methods/ConstructTest.php
+++ b/tests/methods/ConstructTest.php
@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ class ConstructTest extends TestCase {
             ob_start();
             /** @noinspection PhpIncludeInspection */
             require $script_file;
+            $ob_get_clean = ob_get_clean();
             if ($script_file != 'download.php') {
-                $this->assertContains('<td>', ob_get_clean());
+                $this->assertContains('<td>', $ob_get_clean);
             }
         }
         chdir('..');