Creating Helper File in Laravel

Creating a Helpers File

Problem

You have common functions you want available for every request.

But you don't want to dirty up app\start\global.php with a bunch of functions.

Solution

Create a helpers.php file.

First create the file app/helpers.php.

<?php
// My common functions
function test(){
 return 'hello';
}
?>

Then either load it at the bottom of app\start\global.php as follows.

// at the bottom of the file
require app_path().'/helpers.php';

Or change your composer.json file and dump the autoloader.

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

$ composer dump-auto

Call the function directly like:

$d = test();

It will be available everywhere.I can be also created in the package put the helper file in the src folder and change the path.