Best Practices for Custom Helpers in Laravel 5

Question

I would like to create helper functions to avoid repeating code between views in Laravel 5:

view.blade.php

Foo Formated text: {{ fo         


        

Answer 1

Custom Classes in Laravel 5, the Easy Way

This answer is applicable to general custom classes within Laravel. For a more Blade-specific answer, see Custom Blade Directives in Laravel 5.

Step 1: Create your Helpers (or other custom class) file and give it a matching namespace. Write your class and method:

Step 2: Create an alias:

 [
     ...
        'Helper' => App\Helpers\Helper::class,
     ...

Step 3: Run composer dump-autoload in the project root

Step 4: Use it in your Blade template:

{!! Helper::shout('this is how to use autoloading correctly!!') !!}

Extra Credit: Use this class anywhere in your Laravel app:

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Source: http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-4/

Why it works: https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/master/src/Illuminate/Support/ClassLoader.php

Where autoloading originates from: http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.autoload.php