Abort if condition failed

If you want to check some condition, and show an error page in case of failure, you may want to use abort_if() short syntax. It accepts a boolean condition, and an HTTP status code to abort with.

// Don't do this:
$product = Product::findOrFail($id);
if($product->user_id != auth()->id()){
    abort(403);
}

Shorter way

// Do THIS:
$product = Product::findOrFail($id);
abort_if($product->user_id != auth()->id(), 403)