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You're reading from Laravel Application Development Cookbook Since Laravel is so versatile, one of the best learning routes is a cookbook. We've included lots of recipes and guidance on building web application, both simple and complex. It's a pick & mix approach that works brilliantly.

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782162827

Length 272 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Laravel

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Terry Matula

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Laravel Application Development Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Setting Up and Installing Laravel FREE CHAPTER

2. Using Forms and Gathering Input

3. Authenticating Your Application

4. Storing and Using Data

5. Using Controllers and Routes for URLs and APIs

6. Displaying Your Views

7. Creating and Using Composer Packages

8. Using Ajax and jQuery

9. Using Security and Sessions Effectively

10. Testing and Debugging Your App

11. Deploying and Integrating Third-party Services into Your Application

Index

Creating a view using Blade

PHP has many templating libraries available and Laravel's Blade is one of the best. This recipe will show an easily extendable way to get up-and-running with Blade templates, and quickly.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we need a standard Laravel installation.

How to do it...

To complete this recipe, follow these steps:

In the routes.php file, create new routes for our pages as follows:

Route::get('blade-home', function()
{
  return View::make('blade.home');
});
Route::get('blade-second', function()
{
  return View::make('blade.second');
});

In the views directory, create a new folder named layout.

In the views/layout directory, create a file named index.blade.php and add the following code to it:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <title>My Site</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <h1>
    @section('page_title')
      Welcome to 
    @show
    </h1>
    @yield('content...