Laravel Blade Template Engine: Overview, Examples, and Routing Guide
This article provides a comprehensive guide to Laravel's Blade templating engine, covering its overview, layout and child templates, data assignment in controllers, reusable subviews, Blade directives, and a complete routing system for CRUD operations with examples of URL generation.
Blade is Laravel's simple yet powerful templating engine that allows native PHP in views and compiles templates into cached PHP code.
An example layout file ( views/people/layout/layout.blade.php ) defines the HTML structure with sections for header, sidebar, content, and footer using @section and @yield .
Controller methods assign data to views, for instance: return view('people.student.section1', ['name' => $name, 'data' => $data, 'students' => $students]); and can also return plain strings such as return 'urlTest'; .
A child template ( views/people/student/section1.blade.php ) extends the layout, defines its own sections, outputs variables with {{ $name }} , and demonstrates Blade directives like @if , @elseif , @else , @foreach , @forelse , @include , and raw PHP code.
A common subview ( views/people/common/common.blade.php ) shows how to include reusable snippets and display passed variables, e.g., {{ $message }} .
The routing file illustrates basic routes, route groups with a prefix , CRUD routes for a StudentController , ORM routes, named routes, and URL generation using url() , action() , and route() helpers.
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