Create custom helper in laravel 5

Laravel support inbuilt helper functionality that we can use in our web application. Please follow the following easy steps to create your own custom helper.

• First create a folder Helpers in your app directory
• Now create a file CustomHelper.php in this helpers folder
• Open newly created file and write the following code

namespace App\Helpers;

class CustomHelper
{
    public static function myCustomFunction()
    {
        echo "hello world";
    }
}

• Open config/app.php and set aliases for you cutsom helper

'aliases' => [
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'CustomHelper' => App\Helpers\CustomHelper::class

  ],

• Now ou can use your custom helper’s function in your controller like this

 \CustomHelper::myCustomFunction();