laravel-4

I am a newb learning laravel 4. I want to override specific helper functions. Or add new functions to Url, Str etc. How to do this? Depending on what part of Laravel you want to extend or replace, there are different approaches. Macros Adding functions to Str is really easy, because of "macros": Here's a short example for adding function: Str::macro('test', function($str) { return 'Testing: ' . $str . '!'; }); You can then call this function as expected: echo Str::test('text'); // Outputs "Testing: text!" Adding functions using macros are supported by Str, Form, HTML and Response . IOC Based

Apologies if I'm missing something here as I'm new to Laravel but when I send a closure to the Mail::send() method to define the mail recipient, it works fine if the email address is available the global scope, like this: Mail::send('frontend.emails.default', $data, function($message) { $message->to(Input::get('email'))->subject('Hi'); }); But how can I pass a value in that's scoped to the calling method? For example: $user = User::find($id); Mail::send('frontend.emails.default', $data, function($message) { $message->to($user->email)->subject('Hi'); }); I tried adding it to the $data array but

Can someone help to rewrite this, from HTML to Laravel4? <a href="index.php" ><span><i class="icon-home"></i></span> Home </a> The route name for that page is just '/'. I know how to write simple link in Laravel: {{ HTML::link('/','Home) }} But how can I add the span class with the font-awesome icon? I'd just put the link in the href. <a href="{{ url('/') }}"><span><i class="icon-home"></i></span> Home</a> No need to generate all the rest through Laravel. What @Dries suggests is simple and very straightforward, but you really want to have it done entirely via Laravel, I would suggest writing a

I would like to use the DB class of laravel to execute a mysql query but none of the functions provided by Laravel are working. None of those is working: DB::statment() / DB::select() / DB::raw() / DB::update() / DB::select(DB::raw()) Here is the code I would like to query: DROP TABLE users; CREATE TABLE `users` ( `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `u_username` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `u_email` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `password` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `u_regdate` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',

I've been able to get the query result I need using the following raw sql: select `person`.`id`, `full_name`, count(actions.user_id) as total from `persons` left join `actions` on `actions`.`person_id` = `persons`.`id` and `actions`.`user_id` = $user where `type` = 'mp' group by `persons`.`id` But I haven't been able to get it working in eloquent yet. Based on some similar answers, I'd tried functions within ->where() or leftJoin() , but the count of each person's actions isn't yet being filtered by $user . As it stands: $query = Person::leftJoin('actions', function($q) use ($user) { $q->on(

Is it possible to call Shell commands (e.g for converting images ) from laravel controller? If yes then how. I have searched on internet. Nothing seems relevant. Please Guide. Thanks You can use the Process component provided by Symfony: http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/process.html The component is used by Laravel itself, so it can be loaded directly. If you use it(instead of php's exec() function), you'll be able to unit test the code that calls shell commands. It all depends on what operating system you are using. php already has a few functions to execute shell commands. Laravel