Define your own facade in laravel

In this article we want to know how can we define our own facade
and use it in our application

In this article I want to make SmartLogger class and try to use it with Facades so lets start

Create a directory in app and which has SmartLogger name and fill it like below

.
├── SmartLoggerFacade.php
└── SmartLogger.php

0 directories, 2 files

SmartLogger.php

<?php

namespace App\SmartLogger;

class SmartLogger {
    public function log($text) {
        $path = storage_path('logs');
        $myfile = fopen("{$path}/SmartLog.txt", "a");
        fwrite($myfile, $text);
        fwrite($myfile, PHP_EOL);
        fclose($myfile);
    }
}

SmartLoggerFacade.php

<?php

namespace App\SmartLogger;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade;

class SmartLoggerFacade extends Facade
{
    protected static function getFacadeAccessor()
    {
        return 'smartlogger';
    }
}

lets make service provider

php artisan make:provider SmartLoggerServiceProvider

SmartLoggerServiceProvider.php

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use App\SmartLogger\SmartLogger;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class SmartLoggerServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Register services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function register()
    {
        $this->app->bind('smartlogger',function(){
            return new SmartLogger();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Bootstrap services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
        //
    }
}

Now open config\app.php and add this lines in it

Add it in "providers" array

...
        App\Providers\SmartLoggerServiceProvider::class

Add it in "aliases" array

...
        'Smartlogger'   =>  App\SmartLogger\SmartLoggerFacade::class

Now lets test it :)

Add this code in your controller

SmartLogger::log("Hi");

And add this in top of your controller

use App\SmartLogger\SmartLoggerFacade as SmartLogger;

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Define your own facade in laravel

Mohammad Reza