Laravel Helpers

A personal collection of Laravel helpers.

Install

Via Composer

$ composer require stekel/laravel-helpers

Debug

Function	Description
ddquery(Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder $query)	Debug an eloquent query by outputting sql + bindings
ddf(...)	Runs the Laravel dd() function but also outputs filename and line number
dda(Illuminate\Support\Collection $collection, string $attribute)	Runs the Laravel dd() function while returning only a specific attribute from the collection of models
enableQueryLog()	Enable the Laravel database query log
dumpQueryLog()	Dump the entire Laravel database query log
dumpSimpleQueryLog()	Dump only the query line from the Laravel database query log

Formatting

Function	Description
humanFilesize(integer $bytes, integer $decimals)	Converts bytes into a human readable format

General

Function	Description
isNotNull($value)	Checks if the value is not null
isNull($value)	Checks if the value is null (Camel-case version of is_null())
shortName($object)	Returns class name in lowercase
isJson(string $string)	Checks if the value is json
prettyPrintJson(string $json)	Pretty print json
host()	Get the current hostname
makeArray($value)	Force $value to be an array

Random

Function	Description
randomUppercaseLetter()	Generates a random uppercase letter
randomLowercaseLetter()	Generates a random lowercase letter
generateRandomPassword()	Generates a random password