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

This is my HelpersProvider.php file:

helpers as $helper) {
            $helper_path = app_path().'/Helpers/'.$helper.'.php';

            if (\File::isFile($helper_path)) {
                require_once $helper_path;
            }
        }
    }
}

You should create a folder called Helpers under the app folder, then create file called whatever.php inside and add the string whatever inside the $helpers array.

Done!

Edit

I'm no longer using this option, I'm currently using composer to load static files like helpers.

You can add the helpers directly at:

...
"autoload": {
    "files": [
        "app/helpers/my_helper.php",
        ...
    ]
},
...