Pass the custom function to the Laravel Blade template

Question

I have a custom function and I want to pass it in a click template. Here is the function:

function trim_characters( $text, $length = 45, $append = '…' ) { $length = (int) $length; $text = trim( strip_tags( $text ) ); if ( strlen( $text ) > $length ) { $text = substr( $text, 0, $length + 1 ); $words = preg_split( "/[\s]| /", $text, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY ); preg_match( "/[\s]| /", $text, $lastchar, 0, $length ); if ( empty( $lastchar ) ) array_pop( $words ); $text = implode( ' ', $words ) . $append; } return $text; } 

And this is something like this:

 $string = "A VERY VERY LONG TEXT"; trim_characters( $string ); 

Can a custom function be passed to a blade template? Thanks.

Answer 1

You do not need to pass anything to the blade. If you define your function, you can use it from the blade.

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• Create a new app/helpers.php file.
• Add your trim_characters function to it.
• Add this file to your composer.json file .
• Run composer dump-autoload .

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Now just use the function directly in the blade:

 {{ trim_characters($string) }}