Using TWIG templates

Laravel's Blade templates may be nice but there are times when we need another PHP template library. A popular one is Twig. This recipe will show how to incorporate Twig templates into our Laravel application.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we'll just need a standard Laravel installation.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to complete this recipe:

1. Open the composer.json file and add the following line to the require section:

   "rcrowe/twigbridge": "0.4.*"

2. In the command line, update composer to install the package:

   php composer.phar update
   

3. Open the app/config/app.php file and, in the providers array, add Twig ServiceProvider at the end as follows:

   'TwigBridge\TwigServiceProvider'

4. In the command line, run the following command to create our config file:

   php artisan config:publish rcrowe/twigbridge
   

5. In routes.php, create a route as follows:

   Route::get('twigview', function()
   {
     $link = HTML::link('http://laravel.com', 'the Laravel site.');
     return View::make('twig')->with('link'...