Adding Your Own Ray Functions in PHP

In all PHP projects, ray will proxy all calls to the Spatie\Ray\Ray class. This class is macroable: you can dynamically add your own functions to it.

Here's a silly example where the passed value will be displayed in uppercase in the Ray app.

Spatie\Ray\Ray::macro('uppercase', function(string $value) {
    $uppercasedValue = strtoupper($value);

    $this->send($uppercasedValue);

    return $this;
});

ray()->uppercase('this string will be displayed uppercase in ray')

If you want to control the little label next to the item you should use sendCustom in your macro.

Ray::macro('myCustomFunction', function() {
    $this->sendCustom('my custom content', 'hey');
});

ray()->myCustomFunction();