<?php

use Illuminate\Hashing\BcryptHasher;

$hasher = new BcryptHasher();

$str = 'Budgie';
// uses php 5.5 password_hash()
$hash = $hasher->make($str);
// uses php 5.5 password_verify()
$isValid = $hasher->check($str, $hash);

var_dump($str, $hash, $isValid);

string(6) "Budgie"
string(60) "$2y$10$qPR6lwY8H3KN4WNA6tG0xuqxqEquXtTV2K3VHNWtgDmgb7XYAdz.6"
bool(true)

• String helper methods of Laravel
• Supporting Laravel class for Arrays: flatten an multidimensional array
• The Pipeline pattern in Laravel

PHP 7.2, Zend 3.0, Symfony 4.0, Laravel 5.6, PHPUnit 6.5, Doctrine 2.8