Laravel Helpers

Installation

This package requires PHP 5.6+, and includes a Laravel 5 Service Provider.

To install through composer include the package in your composer.json.

"curtissaunders/laravel-helpers": "^1.0"

Run composer install or composer update to download the dependencies or you can run composer require curtissaunders/laravel-helpers.

Laravel 5 Integration

To use the package with Laravel 5, add the Helper Service Provider to the list of service providers in app/config/app.php.

'providers' => [

  CurtisSaunders\LaravelHelpers\HelpersServiceProvider::class
          
];

Available helpers

• versioned_asset will apply a cache busting query string to your assets.
• concat will concatenate strings together
• concat_ws will concatenate strings together with the separator being defined as the first argument
• generate_uuid will generate a valid RFC 4122 UUID
• route_is/routeIs will check if the current route matches the route passed
• query_log_to_sql will allow you to log a database query to a variable and dump it out for easy debugging
• combine_query will combine a query with its bindings

Example of versioned_asset:

{{ versioned_asset('images/photo.png') }}

outputs:

http://mysite.com/images/photo.png?v=392104829

Example of concat:

{{ concat('John', 'Terry', 'Dave') }}

outputs:

John Terry Dave

Example of concat_ws:

{{ concat_ws(' - ', 'John', 'Terry', 'Dave') }}

outputs:

John - Terry - Dave

Example of generate_uuid:

{{ generate_uuid() }}

outputs:

e4eaaaf2-d142-11e1-b3e4-080027620cdd

When using the generate_uuid function, you are able to generate valid RFC 1, 3, 4 and 5 versions. In order to change the version, simply pass the version number you require as the first argument (defaults to 1). For example, to generate a version 4 Uuid, you can do the following:

{{ generate_uuid(4) }}

outputs:

25769c6c-d34d-4bfe-ba98-e0ee856f3e7a

For versions 3 and 5, you are also required to pass in a string as the second argument. This is hashed and used when generating the Uuid. For example:

{{ generate_uuid(3, 'php.net') }}

outputs:

11a38b9a-b3da-360f-9353-a5a725514269

Example of route_is() or routeIs():

Examples shown in Laravel Blade

@if(route_is('about.index'))
// Do something
@else
// Do something else
@endif

Alternatively

@if(routeIs('about.index'))
// Do something
@else
// Do something else
@endif

You can also check for specific parameters by passing them in an array as the second argument. For example, you may want to check that you're on a specific product category to apply an "active" class to a link. Consider the below when looping through category links:

@foreach($categories as $category)
    <a href="{{ route('product.category', [$category->slug]) }}" class="{{ route_is('product.category', ['categorySlug' => $category->slug]) ? 'active' : '' }}">
        {{ $category->name }}    
    </a>
@endforeach

The above would apply a class of "active" when you're on the corresponding page to that link.

Example of query_log_to_sql:

// Enable laravel's query log
DB::connection()->enableQueryLog();
 
... // Do database transactions ...
 
// Get all the queries ran since the query log was enabled
$queryLog = DB::getQueryLog();
 
// Combine the query logs ran with their bindings into the sql that was ran
$sqlQueries = query_log_to_sql($queryLog);
 
// Returns an array of all the sql queries ran with their bindings in place, useful for quick debugging
dd($sqlQueries);

Example of combine_query:

// Create a query using Eloquent
$eloquentQuery = UserModel::where('email', '=', 'user.name@example.com');
 
// Combine the Eloquent query sql and bindings into a query you can run in mysql
$sqlQuery = combine_query($eloquentQuery->toSql(), $eloquentQuery->getBindings());