Utilizing advanced Blade usage

Using Laravel's Blade templating system, we have access to some powerful features that make our development much quicker. For this recipe, we'll pass some data to our blade views and loop through it, along with some conditionals.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we'll need the code created in the Creating a view using Blade recipe .

How to do it...

Follow these steps to complete this recipe:

1. Open the routes.php file and update the blade-home and blade-second routes as follows:

   Route::get('blade-home', function()
   {
     $movies = array(
       array('name' => 'Star Wars', 'year' => '1977', 'slug'=> 'star-wars'),
       array('name' => 'The Matrix', 'year' => '1999', 'slug' => 'matrix'),
       array('name' => 'Die Hard', 'year' => '1988', 'slug'=> 'die-hard'),
       array('name' => 'Clerks', 'year' => '1994', 'slug' => 'clerks')
     );
     return View::make('blade.home')->with('movies', $movies);
   });
   Route::get('blade-second/(:any)', function($slug...