Tools / Laravel Macro's

Macro's are really easy functions you can use to simplify some actions within your Laravel project. Below are two of the macro's I always immediately add to my project;

These go into the boot function of your App\Providers\AppServiceProvider.php file

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// Requires
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder;

// Macro
Builder::macro('search', function ($field, $string) {
    return $string ? $this->where($field, 'LIKE', '%' . $string . '%') : $this;
});

// Usage
User::search('name', 'Rick De Graaf')->get();

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// Requires
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

// Macro
Builder::macro('ddSql', function () {
    $bindings = $this->getBindings();
    $query = $this->toSql();

    foreach ($bindings as $binding) {
        $query = Str::replaceFirst('?', is_string($binding) ? '"' . $binding . '"' : $binding, $query);
    }

    dd($query);
});

// Usage
User::where('email', 'noreply@rickdegraaf.com')->ddSql();

// Result
'select * from `users` where `email` = "noreply@rickdegraaf.com" and `users`.`deleted_at` is null'