Userful Laravel Code Snippets

2023-01-20

Here are a few code snippets that I have found useful time and again

Laravel

Access authenticated user’s ID

	Auth::id();

Format date

	now()->subDays(1)->format('Y-m-d');

Chaining where in Eloquent query

	Blog::select('id')
		->where('date',  '<', now()->subDays(1))
		->orWhere('some_col',  0)
		->get();

Read a file one line at a time and push to an array

	$linearray  =  [];
	File::lines(storage_path('logs/'.$logfile))->each(function($line) use(&$linearray) {
		$linearray  =  Arr::prepend($linearray,  Arr::get($line, 0));
	});

Recursing through a nested JSON structure

	foreach  ($content -> items  as  $item  =>  $node)  {
		Log::info($node->key);
	}

Calling an API endpoint with Bearer Token

	$response  =  Http::withToken($accessToken)->get($apiURL, [
		'param' => $value,
	]);