how to create helpers file laravel5

Simple tip for simple stuff.

create folder Helpers in app directory
create file StringHelper.php in app\Helpers

<?php
namespace App\Helpers;
class StringHelper
{
public static function getCleanString($string)
{
//remove unnecessary chars
$string = str_replace(['-', ' '], '', $string);
return str_slug($string);
}
}

add any simple function in this class as static.

when you need a different helper, create new class for example YoutubeHelper.php and add there stuff you need.

usage

\App\Helpers\StringHelper::getCleanString($name)

Clear Laravel configuration cache

php artisan config:clear 

Laravel insert ignore check if inserted (affected rows for insert ignore)

Halo guys!
if you break your head for finding solution to check if row is inserted here is the way

$query = "INSERT INTO table (id) VALUES (?)";
    try {
        DB::insert($query, array($value));
        return 1;
    } catch (\Exception $e) {
        return 0;
    }

The solution is simle - not use insert ignore. So we are catching exception instead of fatal erroring and know if it did or not.
You can even do query builder insert instead of raw query.

source http://stackoverflow.com/a/31466822/1767461

Laravel 5.3 Nginx Config

    server {
            listen 80;
            listen [::]:80;

            root /var/www/laravel/public;
            index index.php index.html index.htm;

            server_name my_app.dev;

            location / {
                    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
            }
            location ~ \.php$ {
              include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
              fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
            }

            location ~ /\.ht {
                deny all;
            }

Laravel fresh install ubuntu HTTP 500 Fix

sudo chmod 755 -R laravel_app

sudo chmod -R o+w laravel_blog/storage