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 I put this function? In Codeigniter, you had a helpers folder where you could stick all your little global helper methods.

Answer 1

As Usman suggested,

• create a file /application/libraries/demo.php
• define a class Demo() { inside it
• call the function like so: {{ Demo::display() }}

Works because libraries and models are autoloaded in start.php line 76. I believe that filenames must match Classnames (note capital).

<?php

class Demo {

    public static function display() {

        if( !$message = Session::get('errors'))
            $message = 'No Errors';

        echo "<pre>print_r($message)</pre>";

    }

}

Can't quite figure out why I had a problem using the classname Common, there may be a conflict (you could define a namespace if this were important)...