Create a file called helpers.php
in the app/
directory. Paste the code inside it.
Go to composer.json
and add files
to autoload
so that it looks like this:
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"App\\": "app/"
},
"files": [
"app/helpers.php"
]
},
Run composer dump-autoload
to load the newly created helpers file.
Please consider that PHP is an not OS based language. This code will run on any OS like a charm (and not only on nix-systems):