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url: /frontend/collection-queries.md
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# Collection Queries

You can access the items of a [Collection](/data-modeling/collections) in your templates (or anywhere else) by using the `collection` helper. The helper returns an Eloquent collection of `Block` objects that you can iterate over.

### Basic usage

Retrieve all entries of a collection by passing the collection handle as the first argument.

```blade
@foreach (collection('my_collection') as $block)
    <h2>{{ $block->_title }}</h2>
    <p>{{ $block->_content }}</p>
@endforeach
```

Read more about [accessing field data](/frontend/blocks#accessing-field-data) in the Blocks documentation.

### Using the query builder

The `collection` helper returns all entries of a collection. In order to work with the underlying query builder instance, you can use the `collection_query` helper.

Use the custom `whereField`, `whereFieldIn`, and `orderByField` methods to filter and sort the collection data.

```php
$blocks = collection_query('my_collection')
    ->whereField('type', 'main')
    ->orderByField('title')
    ->get();
```

::: tip
Using `collection_query` is more efficient when you only need to fetch a subset of the collection data or want to apply filters, sorting, or pagination.
:::