Form macros are a really cool part of Laravel. They are described in the documentation, but that doesn't show you exactly how to use them in your application. So here is how I do it.
Load macros on the start of the application To register the macros if we follow the docs we simply need to do something like
Form::macro('myField', function() { return '<input type="awesome" >'; });
But how do we get this to load when needed? My solutions is to simply have it load on the start of the application. I do this by making a folder in my app directory called "misc" which just holds files for different things that I have to startup this way. Inside of that folder I make a file called "form_macros.php". To load this file on startup, we are going to require it within app/start/global.php. Simply add
require app_path() . 'misc/form_macros.php'; to the end of the global.php file. This will make sure that the form macros are loaded up …
Load macros on the start of the application To register the macros if we follow the docs we simply need to do something like
Form::macro('myField', function() { return '<input type="awesome" >'; });
But how do we get this to load when needed? My solutions is to simply have it load on the start of the application. I do this by making a folder in my app directory called "misc" which just holds files for different things that I have to startup this way. Inside of that folder I make a file called "form_macros.php". To load this file on startup, we are going to require it within app/start/global.php. Simply add
require app_path() . 'misc/form_macros.php'; to the end of the global.php file. This will make sure that the form macros are loaded up …