I would like to create helper functions to avoid repeating code between views in Laravel 5:
view.blade.php
<p>Foo Formated text: {{ fooFormatText($text) }}</p>
They're basically text formatting functions. Where and how can I create a file with these functions?
Create a helpers.php
file in your app folder and load it up with composer:
"autoload": {
"classmap": [
...
],
"psr-4": {
"App\\": "app/"
},
"files": [
"app/helpers.php" // <---- ADD THIS
]
},
After adding that to your composer.json
file, run the following command:
composer dump-autoload
If you don't like keeping your helpers.php
file in your app
directory (because it's not a PSR-4 namespaced class file), you can do what the laravel.com
website does: store the helpers.php
in the bootstrap directory. Remember to set it in your composer.json
file:
"files": [
"bootstrap/helpers.php"
]