Best practices for Helper functions in Laravel?

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Best practices for Helper functions in Laravel?

@XavierConley → + 1,000Aug 11.2022

What are the best practices for Helper functions in Laravel? I’ve found a few answers, but they differ in where the file is stored and how the functions are then accessed. Is there a one-size-fits-all solution? My goal is to have a text-processing function that I can then use across multiple of Laravel’s blade files.

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In my opinion this is best done in the following way:
First create a helper class by creating a folder called Helpers in the app directory of Laravel and then create a file in it with a naming you'd like, I chose MyTextDecorator for your case:

namespace App\Helpers;
 
 class MyTextDecorator
 {
 static function myText($inputText)
 {
 // add any logic or processing you'd like to do to the text here
 $result = "I like " . $inputText . "!";
 return $result;
 }
 }

Then make sure to alias your class in config\app.php in the aliases array:

'aliases' => [
 // Other aliases
 'MyTextDecorator' => App\Helpers\MyTextDecorator::class
 ]

and then you will be able to use the output in your blade files:

{!! MyTextDecorator::myText('apples') !!}
It should output: I like apples!

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