How to create custom Facade in Laravel 4

Question

Looked up a few tutorials on facades and laravel 4... tried some... not liked the way they work.

For instance, they don\'t all provide a way of defining where to sto

Answer 1

First you need to go to app/config/app.php and in providers section add:

'Laracms\Providers\SettingsServiceProvider',

In the same file in aliases section you should add:

 'Settings' => 'Laracms\Facades\Settings',

In your app/Laracms/Providers you should create file SettingsServiceProvider.php

app->bind('settings', function()
            {
                return new \Laracms\Settings();
            });
    }

}

In your app/Laracms/Facades/ you should create file Settings.php:

Now in your app/Laracms directory you should create file Settings.php:

As you wanted to have your files in custom folder Laracms you need to add this folder to your composer.json (If you used standard app/models folder you wouldn't need to add anything to this file). So now open composer.json file and in section autoload -> classmap you should add app/Laracms so this section of composer.json could look like this:

"autoload": {
    "classmap": [
        "app/commands",
        "app/controllers",
        "app/models",
        "app/database/migrations",
        "app/database/seeds",
        "app/tests/TestCase.php",
        "app/Laracms"
    ]
},

Now you need to run in your console inside your project foler:

composer dump-autoload

to create class map

If everything is fine, you should now be able to use in your applications Settings::get() and Settings:set()

You need to notice that I used folders with uppercases because namespaces by convention starts with upper letters.