Upgrade from Laravel 5.7 to 5.8

Question

Good morning dear friends,

I am making the migration of my personal project from Laravel 5.7 to 5.8, but there is a part in the documentation that I didn’t understand very well, it may be a silly question, but I can’t find anything about it.

All array_* and str_* global helpers have been deprecated. You should use the Illuminate Support Arr and Illuminate Support Str methods directly.

What does that impact on my project? From what I understand the helpers of type array_* should be replaced by Arr, so where I have for example array_push I must replace it with Illuminate\Support\Arr::prepend in this case?

If anyone could clear me of this doubt I’d appreciate!

Answer 1

There is no point in replacing native PHP functions with Laravel functions, the message refers to the global Laravel functions, it has nothing to do with array_push or str_replace, which are native.

Laravel functions (not native to PHP) were documented until version 5.6: https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/helpers, simply see what is documented in Laravel 5.8 for helpers and see what functions are available: https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/helpers

Some of the functions discontinued:

• array_add
• array_collapse
• array_divide
• array_dot
• array_except
• array_first
• array_flatten
• array_forget
• array_get
• arrays
• array_last
• array_only
• array_pluck
• array_prepend
• array_pull
• array_random
• array_set
• array_sort
• array_sort_recursive
• array_where
• array_wrap
• str_after
• str_before
• str_contains
• str_finish
• str_is
• str_limit
• str_plural
• str_random
• str_replace_array
• str_replace_first
• str_replace_last
• str_singular
• str_slug
• str_start

Note that none has to do with PHP natives