Laravel Facade

laravel

There are three components to generating a Facade:
1. The Facade Root, the underlying class the Facade calls methods on.
2. The Facade Class, which tells Laravel which registered (underlying) class it pertains to
3. A Service Provider, which registers the underlying class in the App container

Underlying Facade

// Fideloper/Example/Facades/UnderlyingClass.php
<?php namespace Fideloper\Example\Facades;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade;
class UnderlyingClass extends Facade {
    protected static function getFacadeAccessor() { return 'underlyingclass'; }
}

Underlying Class

// Fideloper/Example/UnderlyingClass.php
<?php namespace Fideloper\Example;
class UnderlyingClass {
    public function doSomething(){
        echo 'Doing something!';
    }
}

Underlying Service Provider

// Fideloper/Example/UnderlyingServiceProvider.php
<?php namespace Fideloper\Example;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
class UnderlyingServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider {
    public function boot(){
        $loader = \Illuminate\Foundation\AliasLoader::getInstance();
        $loader->alias('UnderlyingClass', 'Fideloper\Example\Facades\UnderlyingClass');
    }
    public function register(){
        $this->app['underlyingclass'] = $this->app->share(function($app){
            return new UnderlyingClass;
        });
    }
}

Register Service Provider

Register your Service Provider in the app/config/app.php file

Using Facade

UnderlyingClass::doSomething();