Level 7
You can do the simple trick. Just create new helper file, and include that file before composer autoloader in bootstrap/autoload.php.
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Level 2
Override functions in (...)/Support/helpers.php
I have a form full of nested values that are handled as arrays and I'm trying to validate it properly using Laravel's bult-in validation. I keep running into an Error Exception about htmlentities receiving an array instead of string on the e() function. As far as I can tell this happens when all the validation is done and the framework is trying to repopulate my form for the returned view with errors:
if (!function_exists('e')) {
/**
* Escape HTML entities in a string.
*
* @param \Illuminate\Support\Htmlable|string $value
* @return string
*/
function e($value)
{
if ($value instanceof Htmlable) {
return $value->toHtml();
}
return htmlentities($value, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8', false);
}
}
Where should I put my own e() function so that it will be read before this one?
(I've seen this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/28475973/1001109 but it seems quite hackish)
Level 7
Sorry, I haven't read the Stackoverflow link before.
Alternatively, you can add namespace to the helper function.
<?php
namespace hello {
function e() {
echo "Helper with namespace";
}
}
Now you can use both helpers
hello\e(); // new helper
e('Hi'); // Laravel default helper
Level 2
Thanks @mul14 I went temporarily down the route of changing bootstrap/autoload.php and it's working fine. But isn't that going to be wiped when I update laravel?
Your second solution is cleaner but won't help me. I need to redefine e() so that the Validator can use my function instead of the one defined in helpers.php. That's why namespacing is not an option, unfortunately.
Level 7
It's ok. When you update the Laravel by doing composer update, the composer will replace/update vendor/laravel folder. The other folders will not affects.
Level 2
Great then, I'll keep going down that route. Thanks @mul14 !
Level 1
First apologies for necroposting. But I ran into this problem recently and the bootstrap/autoload.php method doesn't work if you're using PHPUnit. I figured I'd share my solution for posterity sake.
I wrote a Composer Plugin which enables Composer to include project files prior to including vendor files. https://packagist.org/packages/funkjedi/composer-include-files
- Require the plugin
composer require funkjedi/composer-include-files:dev-master. - Update your project's composer.json file, adding your helper file to "include_files".
// composer.json (project)
{
"extra": {
"include_files": [
"app/Foundation/helpers.php"
]
}
}
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@funkjedi Thanks for this. Very useful and much nicer than having to modify bootstrap/autoload.php
Could you please tag a release so we don't have to use dev-master? It'd be nice to not have to lower the minimum-stability.
For now, i'm just using "funkjedi/composer-include-files": "dev-master as 1.0" as a workaround, but a tag would be preferred. Thanks!
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