Where to write Custom Helpers in Laravel?

Question

I want to have a little string converter (translator) helper method. For example, I want to pass my string from the controller and get the result, so I don't want to repeatedly write the same helper function into the controller.

So that I can maybe use it like:

$oldStr = '12 Mayıs 2014';  // which means 12 May in English
$englishStr = custom_date_translator($oldStr);

and it does it's thing on the helper method.

Is the Service Providers for this purpose? It'd be good to learn the right way to do it.

Drown · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-20 01:41:44Z

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You can create a custom helpers.php file and setup Composer so that it's autoloaded.

For example, if you create the helpers.php file in the app/ directory, you could edit your composer.json file to something like this :

 "autoload": {
     "classmap": [
        "database"
    ],
    "psr-4": {
        "App\\": "app/"
    }, 
    "files": [
        "app/helpers.php"
    ]
},

Make sure to run composer dump-autoload in your console to update the autoloader.

answered May 20, 2017 at 1:41

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4 Comments

senty Over a year ago

Thanks a lot for the tip! I needed to open <?php tag without closing it and place function xx() { } and worked! Cheers!

Donny van V Over a year ago

Maybe a small hint, i always use if(!function_exists('myFunc')) to make sure its unique :)

senty Over a year ago

@DonnyvanV Brilliant! Cheers guys!

Artistan Over a year ago

Why do people keep adding functions to the global namespace!! -- always assume conflicts --

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