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Quick Tip

Add conditionable behavior to your own classes

You can use the Conditionable Trait to avoid using if/else and promote method chaining.

namespace App\Services;
 
use Illuminate\Support\Traits\Conditionable;
 
class MyService
{
use Conditionable;
 
// ...
}
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
 
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\Http\Requests\MyRequest;
use App\Services\MyService;
 
class MyController extends Controller
{
public function __invoke(MyRequest $request, MyService $service)
{
// Not good
$service->addParam($request->param);
 
if ($request->has('something')) {
$service->methodToBeCalled();
}
 
$service->execute();
// ---
 
// Better
$service->addParam($request->param)
->when($request->has('something'), fn ($service) => $service->methodToBeCalled())
->execute();
// ---
 
// ...
}
}

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