HITENDRA PATEL

We knows that laravel provides so many helper function build in like public_path, storage_path, config, url, route, etc.

And all are these function defined as globally, so we dose not required to include any file or method to call them.

like that we are also able to create our own helper functions in projects, and also we can call them globally too.

Now don't waste time to go in description, let's make them happen.

Step 1 : Create helper file

Create a new file in following path : /app/Http/helper.php

You can give name whatever you like.

Step 2 : Change in composer.json

We have to make changes in composer.json file which located in root of your project folder

We need to add our file in autoload like below

{
    ...
    "autoload": {
        ...
        "files": [
            "app/Http/helper.php"
        ]
    }
}

We changed in core of our project, so we need to refresh project files once again

Step 3 : Reload composer classes

Run below command in your terminal for generate new classes for project

composer dump-autoload

Above command will gather all require files for your project

And now you are ready to create your helper function in your custom helper file

Step 4 : Create function in custom helper file

Make method of your requirement in following path : /app/Http/helper.php

for example

<?php
...
function dashSlug($string) {
    return Str::slug($string, "-");
}

Now above method is call any where in your project without making any model or controller method

Step 5 : Call custom function in controller

for example

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
...
class Controller extends BaseController {
    public function index(Request $_request) {
    	...
        $dashSlugString = dashSlug($_request->string);
        ...
    }
}

That's all done now here.