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the_velour_fog

Reputation: 2184

How do you find the underlying class behind a Laravel facade?

For example - this function uses a facade:

File::get('path/to/file.txt');

It turns out the underlying class that actually supplies File::get is Illuminate\Filesystem\Filesystem

I looked at the Laravel 4.2 documentation - thats the version Im using - and also the api reference but I couldn't find anything that would explain how to someone who didn't know in advance how to find the "real" class to a facade.

this tutorial on Laravel facades gives a method of doing it which involves

This is a good demonstration of whats going on, but I wouldn't want to do this regularly.

My question is, knowing that the "facaded classes" you use in your app dont necessarily have a the same name or some convention to help you search the filesystem, how can someone - who doesn't know in advance what the underlying class is - find the underlying class for a laravel facade?

Upvotes: 19

Views: 3921

Answers (2)

Daniel Howard
Daniel Howard

Reputation: 5158

It seems that you can use getFacadeRoot(). For example, to find out what's behind the Mail facade:

get_class(Mail::getFacadeRoot());
// in my case returns 'Illuminate\Mail\Mailer'

Upvotes: 10

scrubmx
scrubmx

Reputation: 2556

This is a nice resource: https://laravel.com/docs/facades#facade-class-reference other than that make sure to install some kind of intellisense plugin for whatever editor you happen to be using. Most of them allow you to Ctrl+Right-Click on a class/method and go to the definition.

Upvotes: 11

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