Laravel helper function to get translated page title and description from lang file metadata.php

helpers.php

function getMetaData($type){
    // set a default so it doesn't break phpunit
    if(isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']))
        $page = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    else
        $page = "/";
    
    // if we are looking at a blog article just use the default for the main blog page 
    if(strpos($page, 'blog') !== false) {
        $page = '/blog';
    }
    
    // get the data from the lang files
    $data = trans('metadata.' . $page . '-' . $type);
    // if the key doesn't exist use the default 
    if($data == 'metadata.' . $page . '-' . $type) {
        $data = trans('metadata.default-' . $type);
    }
    return $data;
}