As per feedback from @taylorotwell on a previous pull request (#56101), this PR aims to provide a unified and consistent approach to supporting PHP Enums across all documented areas in the Laravel framework where it makes sense to use them.

Summary of Changes

• Broadcasting:

  • Related document: https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/broadcasting#customizing-the-connection

• Scheduling:

  • Related document: https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/scheduling#scheduling-queued-jobs

• Database:

  • Related document: https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/database#using-multiple-database-connections
  • Related document: https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/queries#retrieving-all-rows-from-a-table

• Filesystem:

  • Related document: https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/filesystem#the-local-driver

• Helpers:

  • Related document: https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/helpers#method-now
  • Related document: https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/helpers#method-today

• Redis:

  • Related document: https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/redis#using-multiple-redis-connections