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Alex Lomia
Alex Lomia

Reputation: 7225

Pass value into @include by default

Long story short

How can I define a default value for a record in @include? Here is my code:

// view - questions.create
@include('questions.__answer', ['number' => 0]) // <-- 'answer' => null by DEFAULT

// view - questions.edit
@include('questions.__answer', ['number' => $index, 'answer' => $answer])

Additional details

As you see, I have create / edit views for a Question model, which contains multiple possible answers. The html code for a single answer is located in a separate partial view to eliminate code duplication. I need to reuse this view both for answer creation, where new record should be created from scratch, and editing of an existing answer, whose fields should be populated with existing data.

I certainly could pass 'answer' => null explicitly, but I prefer it to be passed implicitly.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 77

Answers (1)

Josh
Josh

Reputation: 3288

I never found a great way to do this either, so I had to make a little hack.

https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/1844

There are a lot of ways of setting variables, but pick your favorite. Mine was using a @set.

Then, at the top of the include, do this.

@set('number', isset($number) ? $number : null);

Yeah, I know, it's gross. I never played around with View Composers, though, and you may be able to make use of this:

https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/views#view-composers

Theoretically, you could use view() and a ViewComposer to render a partial template inline with Blade and tuck away all that nasty logic into OOP where it belongs.

Upvotes: 2

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