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Quick Tip

Extending Laravel classes

There is a method called macro on a lot of built-in Laravel classes. For example Collection, Str, Arr, Request, Cache, File, and so on.

You can define your own methods on these classes like this:

Str::macro('lowerSnake', function (string $str) {
return Str::lower(Str::snake($str));
});
 
// Will return: "my-string"
Str::lowerSnake('MyString');

Tip given by @mmartin_joo

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