A Helper for use with Laravel to make configs using path names a lot easier

dynamic_base_path.php

<?php

//
// Say the project is stored in the path /var/html then it could be used like so:
//
// dynamic_base_path('@storage/app/somefile.txt'); // returns /var/html/storage/
//
// dynamic_base_path('/etc/somefile.txt'); // returns /etc/somefile.txt
//
// Use this in your config files when you want relative paths for your local 
// environment but fixed for your production etc.
//

function dynamic_base_path($path) {
    if (Str::startsWith($path, '@')) {
        return base_path(substr($path, 1));
    }

    return $path;
}