How To Create Custom Helper Functions In Laravel 11

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In this it solutions guides tutorial lets see How To Create Custom Helper Functions In Laravel 11. Laravel allows the artisan to create the custom helper functions of thier own. Sometimes we need to use the same functions or any of the formating options throughout the application in this cases we can create a custom helper fucntions and that helper functions will be used throughout the application like controller, blade files etc. In this example we will create a custom helper functions to format the date or timestamp.

Lets create the new file helpers.php and then lets create the function to format the date ,


app/Helpers/helpers.php

<?php
   
use Carbon\Carbon;
  
/**
 * Write code on Method
 *
 * @return response()
 */
if (! function_exists('convertYmdToMdy')) {
    function convertYmdToMdy($date)
    {
        return Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', $date)->format('m-d-Y');
    }
}
  
/**
 * Write code on Method
 *
 * @return response()
 */
if (! function_exists('convertMdyToYmd')) {
    function convertMdyToYmd($date)
    {
        return Carbon::createFromFormat('m-d-Y', $date)->format('Y-m-d');
    }
}

Lets update the path in the composer.json file,


composer.json

...
  
    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "App\\": "app/",
            "Database\\Factories\\": "database/factories/",
            "Database\\Seeders\\": "database/seeders/"
        },
        "files": [
            "app/Helpers/helpers.php"
        ]
    },
  
...

Lets run the below command to let the changes we made in the composer.json to take effect,
composer dump-autoload

Lets see how to use the helper functions in the blade file,

<p>Date: {{ convertYmdToMdy('2022-02-12') }}</p>
   
<p>Date: {{ convertMdyToYmd('02-12-2022') }}</p>

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