Hello, coding enthusiasts! 👋 Today, we plunge deep into the heart of Laravel by covering one of its defining features - Blade Templates. By the end of this post, you'll master the basics, plus some advanced techniques. Let's get started! 🚀
Blade is Laravel's powerful templating engine, allowing you to create templates with inherent PHP code. Furthermore, all Blade templates are compiled into PHP code and cached until they are modified, meaning Blade adds essentially zero overhead to your application. 🔥
Let's start with a basic example.
Here's a simple layout. It's a single file often referred to as the "master layout".
<!-- Stored in resources/views/layouts/app.blade.php -->
<html>
<head>
<title>App Name - @yield('title')</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
@yield('content')
</div>
</body>
</html>
In this master layout, a section (@yield) is defined and has been named content. This content section is where your child views (sub-views) will inject their content.
Now, here's how you define a child view that injects content into the master layout:
<!-- Stored in resources/views/post.blade.php -->
@extends('layouts.app')
@section('title', 'Page Title')
@section('content')
<p>This is the injected content from the post.blade.php!</p>
@endsection
In this file, we are extending the layouts.app which corresponds to layouts/app.blade.php, and defining a section (with @section) that matches the section (@yield) in the master layout.
In a nutshell, Blade elegantly simplifies the process of manipulating and control your HTML content in an efficient and simple manner! 🌟
That's it for now. I hope this guide has given you a strong foundation on which to further explore the intricacies of Laravel's Blade templates. Remember, the perfect code is not only efficient but readable and approachable. 😄
Happy Coding! 🚀
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Note: 🔔 The above documents provide a lot more detail. But remember, technology evolves quickly, so there might be some changes or new features that aren't covered in this blog post.
