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Helper to return the views without specifying a path. A simple way to force a consistent organization of resources/views folder.

Installation

Require the package in your composer.json.

composer require omatech/laravel-autoview

Usage

First, organize your views (blades) inside a folder following a basic structure, according to the controller and the action. For example, if we have a controller called ProductController with an action called index, its view will be located in the folder product with name index.blade.php.

In addition, it is advisable to group the views in a general folder, to differentiate it from components or layouts. This helper interprets that this folder is called pages.

In this way, you can use the autoview() helper without having to specify the route where the view is located.

Therefore, instead of this:

public function index()
{
    return view('pages.product.index');
}

We will do this:

public function index()
{
    return autoview();
}

Extras

• You can modify the name of general folder by publishing the configuration file and modifying the option pages_folder. It can also be ignored by setting false.

• If a view needs some data, you can use with method of class Illuminate\View\View.

public function show($id)
{
    $product = Product::find($id);
    return autoview()->with(compact('title', 'subtitle'));
}

• If the blade is called differently from the action, it can be passed as a parameter.

public function showLoginForm()
{
    return autoview('login');
}

public function showLoginForm()
{
    $title = 'Login Title';
    return autoview('login')->with(compact('title'));
}

• You can ignore the basic structure by setting the second parameter to false. Although to do this it is better to directly use view.

public function showLoginForm()
{
    $title = 'Login Title';
    return autoview('login', false); // = view('login')
}

Credits

• Adrià Roca

Organization

• Omatech

Contributors

See the contributors list here.

License

MIT license.