Laravel 5 helpers

0-Laravel_5_helpers.md

Create helpers in Laravel 5

First, create a helper folder

$ mkdir app/Helpers

Then create helper files, in my case I create route helper

$ touch app/Helpers/routes_helper.php

Usage

routes_helpers

This is useful when you want to get the route by it's name

e.g. in your app/Http/routes.php

<?php
Route::get('auth/login', ['as' => 'auth.login', 'uses' => 'Auth\AuthController@getLogin']);

The as is actually the route name. With this helper you can get the route like this

$route = route_from_name('auth.login');

composer.json

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

routes_helper.php

<?php
/**
 * Get Route from route name
 * 
 * @param string $name 
 * @access public
 * @return \Illuminate\Routing\Route
 */
if (!function_exists('route_from_name')) {
    function route_from_name($name) {
        $collection = Route::getRoutes();

        $routes = $collection->getRoutes();
        foreach ($routes as $route) {
            $action = $route->getAction();
            if (isset($action['as']) && $action['as'] == $name) {
                return $route;
            }
        }
        return null;
    }
}