Laravel view – A complete guide for beginner

Aman Jain,

Laravel view is the presentation layer of laravel. Views are used to show the html and keep separate controller login from view logic. We can created nested views, dynamic views to show dynamic data, include another view in a view. It’s not practical to use a long html in controller or in a function so views are here. Views are stored in resources\views folder and can be access using view('view_name',$array) method.

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Here is the simple example

Create a route

Very first step is to create the route and call our view

<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

Route::get('/hello', function(){
    return view('hello');
});

Here, we used a anonymous function call the view using view method and passed a parameter string hello therefore we need to create a blade html file as well.

Create view 

<body class="antialiased" style="text-align: center;">
        This is a simple hello from readerstacks.com 
</body>

Passing data to Laravel view

What if we wanted to pass data like some database model or a variable to our view then we can pass second parameter to our vies as below i

<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

Route::get('/hello', function(){
    return view('hello',['some_variable'=>1]);
});

and in view

<body class="antialiased" style="text-align: center;">
        This is a simple hello {{$some_variable}} from readerstacks.com 
</body>

Nested View

Nested views means nested folder for example resources/views/hello/world.blade.php then we can access it as below

   return view('hello.world',['some_variable'=>1]);
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Laravel view

How to check view exist or not in Laravel view?

Sometimes you need to check the existence of a view thus for this purpose we can use Laravel View class method exists()

Suppose we want to check a view existence of article.blade.php in folder resource/views/article then we can use it as below

<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\View;  

Route::get('/hello', function(){
  if (View::exists('article.details')) {  
    return "View not found";  
  }  
  return view('hello',['some_variable'=>1]);
});

Sharing data between all views

Sometimes in our application we wanted to shared some specific data to all views like user details or sessions. So in this case we can use our View facade’s share method in our application service provider App\Providers\AppServiceProvider. you need to define it in boot method of it.

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\View;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    
    public function register()
    {
        //
    }
 
    public function boot()
    {
        View::share('key', 'value');
    }
}
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