Facades

Static-like access to container services

Facades provide a convenient static-like interface to services in the container.

Facades provide a static-like syntax that resolves to an object from the container under the hood.

Cache::get('key')

You write this

resolves to

app('cache')->get('key')

Container does this

PHP

// These do the same thing:

// Using facade (static-looking)
Cache::get('key');

// What actually happens:
app('cache')->get('key');

// Using dependency injection
public function index(CacheManager $cache) {
    $cache->get('key');
}

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