Step by step guide to create a custom facade in Laravel 5

Step by step guide to create a custom facade in Laravel 5.4.

1. Create PHP Class File.
2. Bind your class to service provider by creating a service provider class.
3. Create a Facade class
4. Register your service provider in providers array and facade class in aliases array of app/config.php

Step 1. Creating a PHP Class.
In your App directory of Laravel create a new folder "Classes". In "Classes" directory Create a new php file Sampleclass.php

<?php
//importing name space 
namespace App\Classes;

class Sampleclass {
    public function dumpData($array = [])
    {
        dd($array)
    }
} 

?>

Step 2.Creating a service provider class and binding our class.
Creating service container class via php artisan command. Navigate to app/Providers folder and run below command php artisan make:provider 'SampleclassServiceProvider' Binding our class to service provider. In register() method /function of SampleclassServiceProvider class Add below code

 App::bind('Sampleclass', function(){
 
 // creating and returning object of our class
           return new \App\Classes\Sampleclass;
       
 });

Step 3. Creating a Facade class
Navigate to App\Facades Directory and create a new file "sampleFacade.php" and add below code (Please create new directory "Facades" if it does not exists in App folder)

<?php
namespace App\Facades;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade;

class sampleFacade extends Facade{
    protected static function getFacadeAccessor() { 
 return 'Sampleclass'; 

    }
}

Step 4. Registering your service provider in providers array and Facade class in aliases array of app/config.php //Registering your service provider
Open config/app.php and add below line in providers array

App\Providers\SampleclassServiceProvider::class,

//Registering your facade class
Add below code in aliases array

'sampleFacade'       => App\Facades\sampleFacade::class

Congrats you have successfully created and configured your custom Facade in Laravel You can use your Facade any where in project by using below code

$array=['1','2','3'];
sampleFacade::dumpData($array);

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