Laravel 5 Macros: Injecting Class-Based Macros With mixin

The mixin static method is used to load the methods of a mixin class instance into the target class as macro methods. The mixin method accepts a class instance as its first and only argument.

#Signature

The signature of the mixin method is:

1public static function mixin(
2    $mixin
3);

#Example Use

In the following example, we will define a new string mixin class StringEncryptionMixins that will provide access to Laravel's encryption features through the Illuminate\Support\Str class:

 1class StringEncryptionMixins
 2{
 3    public function encrypt()
 4    {
 5        return function ($str) {
 6            return encrypt($str);
 7        };
 8    }
 9 
10    public function decrypt()
11    {
12        return function ($str) {
13            return decrypt($str);
14        };
15    }
16}

After we have defined our mixin class, we can add it to the Str class like so:

1use Illuminate\Support\Str;
2 
3Str::mixin(new StringEncryptionMixins);

After our mixin class has been loaded into the Str class, the methods defined in the mixin class would become available via static methods of the Str class:

1use Illuminate\Support\Str;
2 
3// Encrypt a string.
4$encrypted = Str::encrypt('string value');
5 
6// Decrypt a string.
7$decrypted = Str::decrypt($encrypted);

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