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The auth helper function is a convenience function to quickly access the Laravel authentication features; used without supplying any arguments for $guard , the auth helper function is an alternative to using the Auth facade. With no arguments, the...
parseCallback is a fairly simple method, even though it serves a somewhat specialized purpose. The following syntax for class names and method names can be found utilized throughout the Laravel framework: 1 ClassName @ someMethodName The point is...
…he ucfirst helper method is used to uppercase the first letter of a string. It defines only one parameter— $string —which is the string that should have its first letter upper cased. This helper method differs from PHP's ucfirst function because...
…d ' 5 ] ; We can get the first element of the array (without removing it) like so: 1 $ firstElement = head ( $ sampleArray ) ; The value of $firstElement would then be first . Additionally, the following function calls are equivalent: 1 // Using...
The optimize command optimizes various aspects to improve the performance of the Laravel application. The command provides two flags. The --force flag can be set to indicate that the compiled class file should be written (by default the compiled...
…elper function, we can access only a subset of the user's input data: 1 <?php 2 3 // Get only the user's name. 4 $ name = request ( ) -> only ( ' name ' ) ; Receiving a subset of data can also be accomplished using the shorthand syntax introduced...
…in the value 5 . The following code example shows how to use the max function when specifying a $key : 1 <?php 2 3 use Illuminate \ Support \ Collection ; 4 5 // Create a new collection instance. 6 $ collection = new Collection ( [ 7 [ ' name '...
average($key = null) The average method is simply an alias of the avg (discussed in the Laravel Collection Public API: avg article) method, and can be used in exactly the same way to calculate the averages of items within a collection. 1 <?php 2 3...
last($array, callable $callback = null, $default = null) The last helper method is the logical opposite of the first (discussed in the article Laravel Array Helper Function: array_first method. The difference is that the last function will return...
…ting\ResponseFactory ). The following example demonstrates some of the different methods that are available when the response function is used in this way: 1 <?php 2 3 return response ( ) -> view ( ' welcome ' ) ; 4 return response ( ) -> json (...