Laravel add new item to foreach loop from outside

Question

I am curious. Is Laravel giving us an easier way to add foreign items to foreach array? For example i have:

$video_url = Video::orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->first()->url;
$cut_head = str_after($video_url, 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=');
$cut_tail = str_before($cut_head, '&');

It works as i think. Cutting head and tail. But in my videos loop. There is no cropped video url link.

$videos = Video::orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->get();

$videos is using in my view. Inside a foreach loop. How can i entegrate the cropped url_link to the foreach loop.

Thanks an advance.

Answer 1

Created App\Helper\helper.php added

    function videoJpg($video_url){
    $cut_head = str_after($video_url, 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=');
    $cut_tail = str_before($cut_head, '&');
    $video_jpg = "http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/".$cut_tail."/hqdefault.jpg";

    return $video_jpg;}

added

"classmap": "database"
"psr-4": {"App\\": "app/" }
"files" : ["app/Helper/helper.php"]

to composer.json

After that composer dumpautload

Usage in the blade is: <img src="{{ VideoJpg($video->url) }}"

I made my own helper. This is the cleanest solution.