Where do I put Laravel 4 helper functions that can display flash messages?

Question

I\'ve written a simple display_messages() function that will search Session::get(\'errors\') for flash data and echo it to the screen.

Where do

Answer 1

Create a folder helpers within your app folder and create a file application_helper.php. With such code:

// app/helpers/application_helper.php

function display_messages()
{
  exit('Yes');
}

Then open your composer.json file in root. autoload app/helpers/application_helper.php with composer files.

"autoload": {
....

    "files": [
        "app/helpers/application_helper.php"
    ]

Done, you can now call display_messages().

Some autoloaders may require you to run composer dump command for the first time.