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Discussion on: Alternatives to using a constants.php file in your Laravel project

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Peter Weil •

I really like the class-based constants idea, as opposed to dumping everything into the constants file. Compare, for example,

return $this->status === config('constants.status.published')
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or even

return $this->status === config('status.published')
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with

return $this->status === Status::PUBLISHED
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