composer require calebporzio/awesome-helperscarbon
Shortcut for: new Carbon or Carbon::parse()
carbon('One year ago');chain
Makes an ordinary object chainable.
chain(new SomeClass)
->firstMethod()
->secondMethod()
->thirdMethod();
// You can use the "carry" constant to pass the result of one method into the other:
chain(new Str)->singular('cars')->ucfirst(carry)();
// Returns "Car"
// Also, you can grab the result of the chain by trailing
// a "()" on the end of it. (Thanks to Taylor Otwell for these two additions)connection
Run callback under a different database connection.
$tenantPostIds = connection('tenantdb', function () {
return Post::pluck('id');
});dump_sql
Returns sql query with bindings data.
dump_sql(\DB::table('users')->where('email', "blaBla")->where('id', 1));
// returns "select * from `users` where `email` = 'blaBla' and `id` = 1"faker
Shortcut for: $faker = Faker\Factory::create()
faker()->address; // returns random, fake address
faker('address'); // alternate syntaxuser
A shortcut for auth()->user()
user()->posts()->create([...]);money
echo money(12); // echoes "$12.00"
echo money(12.75); // echoes "$12.75"
echo money(12.75, false); // echos "$13"
echo money(12.75, true, 'en_GB'); // echos "£12.75"
// Note: unless specified otherwise, money() will detect the current locale.ok
Shortcut for response('', 204). When you don't have anything to return from an endpoint, but you want to return success.
return ok();stopwatch
Returns the amount of time (in seconds) the provided callback took to execute. Useful for debugging and profiling.
stopwatch(function () {
sleep(2);
}); // returns "2.0"str_between
Returns string between second argument
str_between('--thing--', '--'); // returns "thing"
str_between('[thing]', '[', ']'); // returns "thing"
Str::between('--thing--', '--'); // returns "thing"
Str::between('[thing]', '[', ']'); // returns "thing"str_extract
Returns capture groups contained in the provided regex pattern.
str_extract('Jan-01-2019', '/Jan-(.*)-2019/'); // returns "01"
Str::extract('Jan-01-2019', '/Jan-(.*)-2019/'); // returns "01"str_match
Checks the provided string against the provided regex pattern.
str_match('Jan-01-2019', '/Jan-.*-2019/'); // returns true
str_match('foo bar baz', 'bar'); // returns true
Str::match('Jan-1-2019', '/Jan-(.*)-2019/'); // returns truestr_validate
A simple way to use validate a string using Laravel's built-in validation system.
str_validate('[email protected]', 'regex:/\.net$/|email|max:10');
// returns: ["Format is invalid.", "May not be greater than 10 characters."]
Str::validate('[email protected]', 'regex:/\.net$/|email|max:10');
// returns: ["Format is invalid.", "May not be greater than 10 characters."]str_wrap
str_wrap('thing', '--'); // returns "--thing--"
Str::wrap('thing', '--'); // returns "--thing--"swap
This function swaps the values of two variables.
$startDate = '2040-01-01';
$endDate = '2020-01-01';
if ($endDate < $startDate) {
swap($startDate, $endDate);
}
echo $startDate; // prints "2020-01-01"
echo $endDate; // prints "2040-01-01"tinker
Kind of like dd(), but will open an artisan tinker terminal session with the variables you passed in, so you can play around.
$somethingYouWantToDebug = new StdClass;
tinker($somethingYouWantToDebug);Submit a PR or issue with helper functions you use or ideas you have for others!
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