Where do I put Laravel 4 helper functions that can display flash messages?

Question

I\'ve written a simple display_messages() function that will search Session::get(\'errors\') for flash data and echo it to the screen.

Where do

Answer 1

For loading Classes:

Create app/libraries/class/Message.php, and add class in file

class Message {
    public static function display() {

    }
}

Add "app/libraries/class" to composer.json

"autoload": {
    "classmap": [
        "app/commands",
        "app/controllers",
        "app/models",
        "app/database/migrations",
        "app/database/seeds",
        "app/tests/TestCase.php",
        "app/libraries/class"
    ]
},

Finally run composer dump-autoload in command line.

You can access that by Message::display()

For loading plain non-object php Functions:

Create app/libraries/function/display_messages.php, and add function in file

function display_messages() {

}

add one line in start/global.php

require app_path().'/libraries/function/display_messages.php';

You can access that just by display_messages()