title: laravel collection to array
body: <p>I have two models, <code>Post</code> and <code>Comment</code>; many comments belong to a single post. I'm trying to access all comments associated with a post as an array.</p>
  
  <p>I have the following, which gives a collection.</p>
  
  <p><code>$comments_collection = $post-&gt;comments()-&gt;get()</code></p>
  
  <p>How would I turn this <code>$comments_collection</code> into an array? Is there a more direct way of accessing this array through eloquent relationships?</p>