Whats the laravel way to convert boolean string to bool?-CodePudding

useful for say, laravel components, where often text can be handed by mistake e.g.

<x-mything render="false"/>

this will be string "false" and

if("false"){
// is truthy
}

the php way to handle this is here

https://stackoverflow.com/a/15075609/533426

is there a laravel way to do it?

the answer:

<x-mything :render="false"/>

is not the answer I'm looking for. I'm looking for a laravel way to cast string to boolean like in the linked post

CodePudding user response：

    if(!filter_var($render, FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN)) {

        // is falsy

    }

Encapsulate this in a string macro. In the AppServiceProvider boot method add;

use Illuminate\Support\Str;

    public function boot()
    {
        Str::macro('isFalsy', function ($str) {
            return !filter_var($str, FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN);
        });
    }

now in code Str::isFalsy($render) or in Laravel 9 str($render)->isFalsy()

or swap the logic and create an isTruthy() macro