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

I used this tutorial and i think is the easiest method: http://laravel-recipes.com/recipes/50/creating-a-helpers-file

1. First create the file app/helpers.php

2. Then either load it at the bottom of app\start\global.php as follows.

   // at the bottom of the file require app_path().'/helpers.php';

Or change your composer.json file and dump the autoloader.

 {
        "autoload": {
            "files": [
                "app/helpers.php"
            ]
        }
    }

$ composer dump-auto

3. then you can write your functions in helpers.php and call them from anywhere

   function myfunction($result){ 
        return $result;
       }