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Laravel 5: Conditionally Transforming/Changing Values With transform

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The transform helper function is used to modify the provided value if the value contains a "non-empty" value. A value is considered to be "empty" or "blank" if it meets one of the following conditions: The value is, null, ,, The value is a string...

Laravel 5: Determining if a Variable Holds a Value With blank

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The blank function is used to determine if the provided value contains a value that is not null , or a non empty value. It can be useful to check arguments supplied to functions for values without having to check many different types specifically....

Laravel 5: Determining Which Traits a Class Uses With trait_uses_recursive

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The trait_uses_recursive function will return an array of all the traits that are used by a class. It will also return any traits that the traits are using.The signature of the trait_uses_recursive function is:Given the traits and class: The...

Laravel 5: Displaying Variable Data and Stopping Script Execution for Debugging With dd

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The dd function is a debug utility that will display useful information about the objects or values supplied. This function will also prevent further execution of the script; it will dump the values of the supplied arguments and die (exit the...

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

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The signature of the tap function is:

Laravel 5: Finding What Traits a Class Uses With class_uses_recursive

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The class_uses_recursive function is functional similar to the trait_uses_recursive function. It will return an array of all the traits that are used by the given class, its traits and any base classes.The signature of the class_uses_recursive...

Laravel 5: Get the Current Date With today

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The today helper function is similar to the now helper function in that it returns a Carbon for the current date, however, the difference is that the today helper function only returns the date component; the time component is set to 00:00:00 ....