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

Best Practice to write custom helpers is

1) Inside the app directory of the project root, create a folder named Helpers (Just to separate and structure the code).

2) Inside the folder write psr-4 files or normal php files

If the PHP files are in the format of psr-4 then it will be auto loaded, else add the following line in the composer.json which is inside the project root directory

Inside the autoload key, create a new key named files to load files at the time of auto load,inside the files object add the path starting from app directory., here is an example.

"autoload": {
    "classmap": [
        "database"
    ],
    "psr-4": {
        "App\\": "app/"
    },
    "files": [
        "app/Helpers/customHelpers.php"
    ]
},
"autoload-dev": {
    "classmap": [
        "tests/TestCase.php"
    ]
},

PS : try running composer dump-autoload if the file dosen't loaded.