Laravel 5 Collections: Calculating the Sum of a Collection With sum

The sum is a simple method that returns the sum of all items in a collection. It also defines a $callback parameter which can be used to tell the sum method which values of the collection should be added together. If no items are in the...

Laravel Artisan General Command: The env Command

The env command is used to simply return the name of the current framework environment. The environment name that is returned is set in the .env file (specifically whatever value is set for the APP_ENV entry). 1 # Display the current framework...

Laravel Application Helper: old

old($key = null, $default = null) The old helper function is used to retrieve an old input item. It is a shortcut to calling the Illuminate\Http\Request::old instance method. It accepts a $key argument and a $default argument. They $key should be...

Laravel 5: Execute a Callback on a Given Value While Chaining the Original Value With tap

Laravel 5: Generating CSRF Hidden HTML Fields With csrf_field

The csrf_field function can be used to generate a hidden HTML element containing the value of the CSRF token. These tokens can help to prevent cross-site request forgeries.The signature of the csrf_field function is: 1 function csrf_field ( ) ;For...

Laravel Security Helper Function: e for HTML Entities

The e function is a simple wrapper of PHP's htmlentities function. The e function utilizes the UTF-8 character encoding. The e function will sanitize user input when displaying it to the browser. The signature for the e helper function is:...

Laravel 5: Splitting an Array Into It's Keys and Values with divide

The divide helper method will take the given $array and create two new arrays. The first array will be all of the keys from the original $array and the second array will be all of the values.

Laravel 5: Hashing Strings With bcrypt

The bcrypt function will return a hashed representation of the given $value . The bcrypt function also accepts an array of $options which can be used to affect how the hash is computed. Each invocation of the bcrypt function should produce a...

Laravel 5 Macros: Framework Classes with Dynamic Methods Available

The following table will list every framework class or trait that implements the __call method directly. The table will also indicate if the class or trait supports macros even though it implements __call . Please note that the following table...

Laravel 5: Ensuring a Value is an Array With wrap

At some point in your PHP adventures, you have either seen, or written code like the following: 1 function checkDomains ( $ domains ) { 2 if ( ! is_array ( $ domains ) ) { 3 $ domains = ( array ) $ domains ; 4 } 5 6 foreach ( $ domains as $ domain...