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Make Laravel development faster, cleaner, and more productive. Laravel HelperBox ships 600+ high-quality helper functions across arrays, strings, dates, Blade, Eloquent/database, caching, HTTP/APIs, security, math/algorithms, data science, geo utilities, frontend optimizations, system monitoring, and more.

Built for modern Laravel (9–12), fully framework-native, no macros or monoliths — just handy, well-named functions you can drop into any project.

✨ Highlights

• 600+ unique helpers not in PHP or Laravel core
• Organized into focused categories in src/Helpers
• Autoloaded via HelperServiceProvider — zero setup
• Production-ready: caching, DB utilities, security, performance, analytics

📦 Installation

composer require subhashladumor/laravel-helperbox

Laravel auto-discovers the provider: Subhashladumor\LaravelHelperbox\HelperServiceProvider.

⚡ Usage (quick taste)

// Arrays
$flat = array_flatten_recursive([[1, [2]], 3]); // [1, 2, 3]

// Strings
$slug = str_slugify('Hello, Laravel HelperBox!'); // "hello-laravel-helperbox"

// Cache
$value = cache_with_jitter('dashboard:data', 300, 15, fn () => fetchExpensive());

// DB (detect N+1)
$report = db_detect_n_plus_one(User::query(), ['posts', 'roles']);

// HTTP
$json = http_get_json('https://api.github.com');

See full category documentation in the docs below.

🗂 Categories (600+ helpers)

Each helper group lives in src/Helpers/<HelperFile>.php. Explore documentation per category:

• ArrayHelpers
• StringHelpers
• MathHelpers
• BladeHelpers
• ModelDatabaseHelpers
• FilePathHelpers
• MemorySystemHelpers
• ControllerRepositoryHelpers
• DateTimeHelpers
• CacheSessionHelpers
• ApiHttpHelpers
• ValidationHelpers
• AdvancedAlgorithmHelpers
• AdvancedStringParsingHelpers
• AdvancedMathAlgorithmicHelpers
• AdvancedLaravelDatabaseHelpers
• JsStyleHelpers
• AdvancedCacheHelpers
• FileStreamingHelpers
• SystemMonitoringOptimizationHelpers
• SecurityAuthHelpers
• AdvancedDeveloperHelpers
• ThirdPartyApiHelpers
• SqlOptimizationHelpers
• DataScienceAnalyticsHelpers
• FrontendOptimizationHelpers
• GeoHelpers

Total helpers: 600+ (and growing)

📖 Documentation

All categories link to docs/<HelperFile>.md. Each page includes:

• Overview and when to use
• Function index with signatures
• Usage examples and tips

If you prefer browsing code, see src/Helpers/ — every function is wrapped in function_exists guards and can be called directly.

🛠 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Fixes, docs, tests, and new helpers are appreciated.

1. Fork and create a feature branch
2. Add or update helpers in src/Helpers/
3. Include concise PHPDoc blocks and guard with function_exists
4. Add usage examples to the corresponding docs/<HelperFile>.md
5. Open a PR with a clear description

📄 License

MIT © Subhash Ladumor

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