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 −

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 −

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

< ?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”.

< ?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.

< ?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.

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

Step 8 − Add the following lines in 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 −