Helpers

Introduction#

Laravel helpers are the globally accessible functions defined by the framework. It can be directly called and independently used anywhere within the application without needing to instantiating an object or importing class.

There are helpers for manipulating Arrays, Paths, Strings, URLs, etc

Array methods

array_add()

This method is used to add new key value pairs to an array.

$array = ['username' => 'testuser'];

$array = array_add($array, 'age', 18);

result

['username' => 'testuser', 'age' => 18]

String methods

camel_case()

This method changes a string to camel case

camel_case('hello_world');

result

HelloWorld

Path mehods

Path methods helps easy access to application related paths easily from anywhere.

public_path()

This method returns the fully qualified public path of the application. which is the public directory.

$path = public_path();

Urls

url()

The url function generates a fully qualified URL to the given path.

if your site is hello.com

echo url('my/dashboard');

would return

hello.com/my/dashboard

if nothing is passed to the url method it would return an instance of Illuminate\Routing\UrlGenerator, and it could be used like this

would return current url

echo url()->current();

would return full url

echo url()->full();

would return previous url

echo url()->previous();