Laravel - Facades



Facades provide a static interface to classes that are available in the application's service container. Laravel facades serve as static proxies to underlying classes in the service container, providing the benefit of a terse, expressive syntax while maintaining more testability and flexibility than traditional static methods.

How to create Facade

The following are the steps to create Facade in Laravel −

  • Step 1 − Create PHP Class File.

  • Step 2 − Bind that class to Service Provider.

  • Step 3 − Register that ServiceProvider to

    Config\app.php as providers.

  • Step 4 − Create Class which is this class extends to

    lluminate\Support\Facades\Facade.

  • Step 5 − Register point 4 to Config\app.php as aliases.

Facade Class Reference

Laravel ships with many Facades. The following table show the in-built Facade class references −

Facade Class Service Container Binding
App Illuminate\Foundation\Application app
Artisan Illuminate\Contracts\Console\Kernel artisan
Auth Illuminate\Auth\AuthManager auth
Auth (Instance) Illuminate\Auth\Guard
Blade Illuminate\View\Compilers\BladeCompiler blade.compiler
Bus Illuminate\Contracts\Bus\Dispatcher
Cache Illuminate\Cache\Repository cache
Config Illuminate\Config\Repository config
Cookie Illuminate\Cookie\CookieJar cookie
Crypt Illuminate\Encryption\Encrypter encrypter
DB Illuminate\Database\DatabaseManager db
DB (Instance) Illuminate\Database\Connection
Event Illuminate\Events\Dispatcher events
File Illuminate\Filesystem\Filesystem files
Gate Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Access\Gate
Hash Illuminate\Contracts\Hashing\Hasher hash
Input Illuminate\Http\Request request
Lang Illuminate\Translation\Translator translator
Log Illuminate\Log\Writer log
Mail Illuminate\Mail\Mailer mailer
Password Illuminate\Auth\Passwords\PasswordBroker auth.password
Queue Illuminate\Queue\QueueManager queue
Queue (Instance) Illuminate\Queue\QueueInterface
Queue (Base Class) Illuminate\Queue\Queue
Redirect Illuminate\Routing\Redirector redirect
Redis Illuminate\Redis\Database redis
Request Illuminate\Http\Request request
Response Illuminate\Contracts\Routing\ResponseFactory
Route Illuminate\Routing\Router router
Schema Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint
Session Illuminate\Session\SessionManager session
Session (Instance) Illuminate\Session\Store
Storage Illuminate\Contracts\Filesystem\Factory filesystem
URL Illuminate\Routing\UrlGenerator url
Validator Illuminate\Validation\Factory validator
Validator (Instance) Illuminate\Validation\Validator
View Illuminate\View\Factory view
View (Instance) Illuminate\View\View

Example

Step 1 − Create a service provider called TestFacadesServiceProvider by executing the following command.

php artisan make:provider TestFacadesServiceProvider

Step 2 − After successful execution, you will receive the following output −

FacadesServiceProvider

Step 3 − Create a class called TestFacades.php at App/Test.

App/Test/TestFacades.php

<?php
   namespace App\Test;
   class TestFacades{
      public function testingFacades() {
         echo "Testing the Facades in Laravel.";
      }
   }
?>

Step 4 − Create a Facade class called “TestFacades.php” at “App/Test/Facades”.

App/Test/Facades/TestFacades.php

<?php

namespace app\Test\Facades;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade;

class TestFacades extends Facade {
   protected static function getFacadeAccessor() { return 'test'; }
}

Step 5 − Create a Facade class called TestFacadesServiceProviders.php at App/Test/Facades.

App/Providers/TestFacadesServiceProviders.php

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use App;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class TestFacadesServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider {
   public function boot() {
      //
   }
   public function register() {
      App::bind('test',function() {
         return new \App\Test\TestFacades;
      });
   }
}

Step 6 − Add a service provider in a file config/app.php as shown in the below figure.

config/app.php

Service Provider

Step 7 − Add an alias in a file config/app.php as shown in the below figure.

config/app.php

Alias

Step 8 − Add the following lines in app/Http/routes.php.

app/Http/routes.php

Route::get('/facadeex', function() {
   return TestFacades::testingFacades();
});

Step 9 − Visit the following URL to test the Facade.

http://localhost:8000/facadeex

Step 10 − After visiting the URL, you will receive the following output −

Testing Facades
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