How to call a controller function inside a view in laravel 5

Question

In laravel 4 i just used a function

$varbl = App::make(\"ControllerName\")->FunctionName($params);

to call a controller function from a

Answer 1

You can actually call a class, helper class or any declared class in your blade template but putting it in the aliases array of your app.php in the config folder

        'Helper' =>   App\Http\Helpers\Helper::class,

Using the Helper as an alias, you can reference it in your blade template, example below:

        {{Helper::formatDateToAgo ($notification->created_at)}}