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

Add this in app/start/global.php

require app_path().'/config/autoload.php';
require app_path().'/start/loader.php';
App::instance('loader',new loader($autoload));

create a new file loader.php in app/start and add:

class loader{
private $helpers = array();
public $autoload = array(
    'helpers' => array()
);
function __construct($autoload  = array()) {
    if (!empty($autoload))
        $this->autoload = $autoload;
    foreach ($this->autoload as $key => $value)
    {
        $function = strtolower($key);
        $this->$function($value);
    }
}
function helpers($helpers=array())
{
    if (!is_array($helpers))
        $helpers = explode(",",$helpers);
    foreach ($helpers as $key => $value) {
        $this->helper($value);
    }

}
function helper($helper = '',$path = '/')
{
    $folder = app_path().'/helpers'.$path;
    if (file_exists($folder.$helper.'.php') && !in_array($helper, $this->helpers)){
        $this->helpers[] = $helper;
        require $folder.$helper.'.php';
    }
    else{
        $segments = explode('/',$helper);
        if (is_dir($folder.$segments[0])){
            array_shift($segments); 
            $this->helper($segments,$path.$segments[0].'/');
        }
    }
}

}

create a new file autoload.php in app/config and add:

$autoload['helpers'] = array('functions'); // my autoload helpers!

create a new folder helpers in app/ , add your helper files. ( es. myhelper.php )

function myhelper()
{
echo 'helper';
}

in your controller add:

App::make('loader')->helper('myhelper');
    myhelper();