Collection Laravel helper functions

Installation

  composer require shegunbabs/laravel-helpers

Helpers

carbon

shortcut for new Carbon or Carbon::parse()

carbon('today'); //2021-11-29 00:00:00
carbon('yesterday'); //2021-11-28 00:00:00

emoji

print emojis using php

emoji('CHARACTER_GRINNING_FACE'); //😀

This function is based on the Spatie Emoji package. Refer to the documentation for more information

chain

Make an ordinary object chainable.

chain(new SomeClass)
    ->firstMethod()
    ->secondMethod()
    ->thirdMethod(carry);

// Use "carry" constant to pass the return value of a method into the other.

chain(new Str)->lower('John Doe')->camel(carry);
// returns "johnDoe"
// You can grab the result of the chain by trailing a "()" on the end of it.