There are a number of utility helper functions packaged with Laravel that may be used in your own application or theme on FusionCMS. In addition, FusionCMS comes with a number of it's own helper functions to help streamline development.
Available Methods
App
DateTime
Fields
Forms
Menus
Paths
Settings
Strings
Themes
App
app_installed
Use to determine if the CMS is currently installed or not. Returns a boolean value.
app_memory_usage
Returns the memory usage in a human readable format.
app_loading_time
Returns the total loading time in human readable format.
fusion
Returns an instance of the dispatcher class. Used to perform API requests internally.
glide
Returns glide instance of image file, taking optional disk as an argument.
running_in_console
Returns if the current process is running in the console or not.
DateTime
carbon
Returns a new carbon instance.
carbon_date
Returns a new carbon instance, with the timezone and date format pre-configured based on the settings in the CMS.
carbon_time
Returns a new carbon instance, with the timezone and time format pre-configured based on the settings in the CMS.
Fields
fieldtypes
Returns Fusion\Fieldtypes\Registry containing all registered Fieldtype resources.
Forms
render_form
Renders a Form using the form's template or user-specified one:
// Renders form with form's own template.
render_form('contact-us');
// Renders form with user-specified template.
render_form('contact-us', 'forms.custom-template');
// Renders form, sending additional parameters to form template.
render_form('contact-us', null, ['time' => time()]);honeypot_fields
Generates and renders Honeypot fields to add to your form for spam prevention. When a form is submitted, these fields will be validated along with the rest of the form.
Menus
menus
Returns Illuminate\Support\Collection of navigation links from requested Navigation.
Paths
fusion_path
The fusion_path function returns the fully qualified path to the fusion package directory. You may also use the fusion_path function to generate a fully qualified path to a file relative to the fusion package directory:
$path = fusion_path();
// /path/to/fusion/settings
$path = fusion_path('settings');
// /path/to/fusion/settingstheme_path
The theme_path function returns the fully qualified path to the fusion/themes directory. You may also use the theme_path function to generate a fully qualified path to a file relative to the fusion/themes package directory:
$path = theme_path();
// /path/to/fusion/themes
$path = theme_path('settings');
// /path/to/fusion/themes/settingsSettings
setting
Access FusionCMS Settings to retrieve or manipulate a setting value at runtime:
// request all settings
setting();
// request setting by key
setting('api.personal_access_token');
// sets runtime setting value by key
setting(['api.personal_access_token' => 'new_value']);Strings
render_markdown
Converts Markdown to HTML using Parsedown Extra.
render_markdown('
# FusionCMS
Build something special!
')
// <h1>FusionCMS</h1>
// <p>Build something special!</p>str_handle
Shortcut for:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;
Str::slug($value, '_');Themes
javascript
Transforms PHP variables into JavaScript.
theme
Return values directly from the theme.json manifest file. You may find detailed breakdown of this helper under theme documentation
{{ theme('name') }}theme_mix
Use in combination with Laravel Mix to return hashed file values for compiled JS and CSS. You may find detailed breakdowns of these helpers under theme documentation
<script src="{{ theme_mix('js/theme.js') }}></script>theme_option
Returns either the default or saved value of a specific theme option.
{{ theme_option('colors.primary') }}theme_preview
Returns as either true or false, indicating if the theme is being viewed through the theme customizer or content preview window.