How to override route helper?

[preetham-cbn]

Hello,

Firstly, thanks for this awesome package.
It's working fine amazing, but I need to override the route helper function.
I see you have added "if( !function_exists ('route'))" to your helper, however, If i declare the same route function in my own laravel application, it gives an error saying its already declared in this package.

So, question is, how can I override this?
https://github.com/codezero-be/laravel-localized-routes/blob/master/src/helpers.php

[ivanvermeyen]

Hi,

Thanks for reporting this issue.
To automatically load the included route helper function before the one from Laravel, I am using a package called 0.0.0/composer-include-files.
Unfortunately this seems to cause some issues (see also #66).

I think I will have to let people add the helper functions manually instead of automatically.
It's a little less convenient, but since there is no "priority" mechanism in Composer for such file loading, I don't see any other solution.

[preetham-cbn]

Hello,

Since you have already included that package, I gave it a try within my composer as well, I did the same config as you, it does seem to "prioritize" my helpers , earlier it was somewhere at the bottom, now it loads it second , while your package helper is first, so its not picking my helper first.

Screenshot from composer autoloader files list

[ivanvermeyen]

The only solution I can come up with so far is to instruct people to require the helper file in public/index.php, right before require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/autoload.php';.

I don't like it, but it seems to be the only way to override Laravel's helpers without using the 0.0.0/composer-include-files package.

[preetham-cbn]

Hello,

Thanks, I ended up with the same solution. Cheers!!