Facades

Facades provide a static interface to services bound in the container. Sloth registers all facades automatically — no configuration needed.

Available facades

Facade	Container key	What it does
Cache	cache	Laravel Cache — get, put, remember, forget
File	files	Illuminate Filesystem — read, write, copy, delete
View	view	Twig view factory — make, render
Route	router	Sloth Router — get, post, put, delete
URL	url	URL generation — home, theme, asset, route
Response	response	HTTP responses — make, json, view, redirect, download
Options	options	WordPress options + ACF options API
Pagination	pagination	Laravel Paginator
Validation	validator	Laravel Validator
Menu	menu	WordPress nav menus
Module	module	Module rendering
Layotter	layotter	Layotter page builder
Customizer	customizer	WordPress Customizer
Deployment	deployment	Deployment utilities

Usage

use Sloth\Facades\Cache;
use Sloth\Facades\View;
use Sloth\Facades\URL;
use Sloth\Facades\Route;
use Sloth\Facades\Response;
use Sloth\Facades\Options;
use Sloth\Facades\File;

// Cache
Cache::remember('key', 3600, fn() => expensive());
Cache::forget('key');

// View
View::make('Layout/single')->with(['post' => $post])->render();

// URL
URL::route('projects.index');
URL::theme('css/app.css');
URL::asset('js/app.js');

// Route
Route::get('/projects', fn() => Response::view('Layout/projects'));

// Response
Response::view('Layout/page', ['post' => $post]);
Response::json(['key' => 'value']);
Response::redirect('/new-url');
Response::download('/path/to/file.pdf', 'report.pdf');

// Options
Options::get('blogname');
Options::get('primary_color', '#000');
options('blogname');        // global helper
options('primary_color');   // with default

// File
File::get('/path/to/file.txt');
File::put('/path/to/file.txt', 'contents');
File::exists('/path/to/file.txt');

Writing your own facade

<?php

namespace App\Facades;

use Sloth\Facades\Facade;

class MyService extends Facade
{
    protected static function getFacadeAccessor(): string
    {
        return 'my-service'; // container binding key
    }
}

Register the binding in a service provider:

public function register(): void
{
    $this->app->singleton('my-service', fn() => new MyService());
}

Further reading

• Laravel Facades — how facades work, real-time facades, testing