Laravel: Issue with calling custom Facade - laravel

Question

I'm using Laravel 8 and I'm creating a custom Facade, but I cannot recall it with LogActivity::log($payload) but only with LogActivityFacade::log($payload).
Cannot see where is my fault...
app\Helpers\LogActivityFacade.php
<?php
namespace App\Helpers;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade;
class LogActivityFacade extends Facade
{
protected static function getFacadeAccessor()
{
return 'logactivity';
}
}
app\Helpers\LogActivityHelper.php
<?php
namespace App\Helpers;
use App\Repositories\LogActivityRepository;
class LogActivityHelper
{
public function log($payload)
{
$repository = new LogActivityRepository();
$repository->store($payload);
}
}
app\Providers\LogActivityServiceProvider.php
<?php
namespace App\Providers;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\App;
use App\Helpers\LogActivityHelper;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
class LogActivityServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
/**
* Register services.
*
* #return void
*/
public function register()
{
$this->app->bind('logactivity', function() {
return new LogActivityHelper();
});
}
/**
* Bootstrap services.
*
* #return void
*/
public function boot()
{
//
}
}
config/app.php
In providers array
[...]
App\Providers\LogActivityServiceProvider::class,
In alias array
'LogActivity' => App\Helpers\LogActivityFacade::class,
I tried also composer dump-autoload and php artisan config:clear, but I can access to the Facade (and it works...) only with LogActivityFacade::log() instead of LogActivity.

Answer 1

This is the expected behavior. Laravel doesn't create new classes for you it just proxies methods from the service class in the facade using the __call magic method. If you take a peek at, for example, the Auth or Route facade in the vendor directory you will see that they are named Auth and Route respectively not AuthFacade and RouteFacade. So just name your facade LogActivity. If you need to differentiate it from the service class you can use namespacing or just postfix the service class name with something as you have already done.

Answer 2

You can do this for easy access to the facades
namespace App\Facade;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade;
abstract class BaseFacade extends Facade
{
/**
* #return string
*/
public static function getFacadeAccessor()
{
return static::class ;
}
/**
* #param $class
*/
static function shouldProxyTo($class)
{
app()->singleton(self::getFacadeAccessor(),$class);
}
}
extend other facades
namespace App\Facade\Plugins;
use App\Facade\BaseFacade;
/**
* #method static convertPersianNumberToEnglish($number)
* #method static bool checkDataIsTrue(array $results = [])
* #method static string|null removeFileTypeName(string $string = null)
*/
class GlobalPluginsFacade extends BaseFacade
{
}
register in services provider
public function boot()
{
// global facades
GlobalPluginsFacade::shouldProxyTo(GlobalPluginsRepo::class);
}
And easy to use.
GlobalPluginsFacade::getFunction();