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Here's how Laravel's defer() function, which was introduced a few months ago, works behind the scenes.

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If you're using Ignition (and you probably are if you're on Laravel 6), you know have access to a new helper function that help you debug code.

We now give you ddd - a globally available helper function that does everything that you love about dd and sprinkles everything that Ignition has to offer on top of it.

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Liam Hammett created a cool package to easily create Blade Helpers in Laravel.

I put together a package that attempts to help make these helper functions that little bit easier to define without the boilerplate of returning the string or having to consider what an expression may be when creating a Blade directive.

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Caleb Porzio created a new Laravel package with a couple of very usefull functions.

I packaged up all the helper functions I use in my projects. They are cool. You can install it by running composer require calebporzio/awesome-helpers.

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? Tip: the `abort` helper in @laravelphp can take any `Response` object!

Especially useful for redirection, since the `redirect` & `back` helpers only work in top-level controller methods.

When in a supporting method from which you can't `return`, use the `abort` helper ? pic.twitter.com/dFwhhXz211

— Joseph Silber (@joseph_silber) 19 juli 2018

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?‍? Who knew, Laravel's string helper class can generate uuids - woot!

If you care, here's my UUID model trait I use (the packages are too heavy handed for me) https://t.co/L8Il1sH5VA pic.twitter.com/K6OwkHKQBD

— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) July 5, 2018

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Miklós Galicz posted a short article on how he managed to override Laravel's str_slug helper function.

Long story short, until this is resolved one way or another... A really obscure but powerful tool can be a temporary solution for this. It's called Helper Overloading. Laravel's helpers are created in a way that checks if the method already exists. ... This is really great, the only thing remaining is to actually add our own method before Laravel creates it own version.

https://blackfyre.ninja/blog/fixing-slug-generation-problems

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When working on projects I found myself, over time, needing the same string functions over and over again. Things like how to shorten a string but still let it end on entire word, replace the last occurrence of string in a string, ...

Instead of keeping these functions in a helper file locally in the project, I made a package out of it. It was a good opportunity to spice it up with bit of OO to make them chainable. An example:

[code] // outputs "MIDDLE" echo string('StartMiddleEnd')->between('Start', 'End')->toUpper();

In addition to it's own methods, the package provides <a href="https://github.com/spatie/string#integration-with-underscorephp">an integration</a> with <a href="https://github.com/Anahkiasen/underscore-php">Maxime Fabre's underscore package</a>.

You are very welcome to submit pull requests to add functions that you feel are missing. Be sure to include some unit tests to ensure everything working as intended.

Granted,  it isn't the most sexy package in the world, but it sure is handy.

<a href="https://github.com/spatie/string">https://github.com/spatie/string</a>

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