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NooBskie
NooBskie

Reputation: 3841

How to render view template via controller

I want to reuse the same return View::make('pages.home'); template view for my UserController but I am not sure how to connect the view to that controller.

I am assuming I need to put something in my index of my controller but I am not exactly sure what as this is my first time with Laravel.

Here is my current code:

Routes.php

<?php

Route::get('/home', function () {
  return View::make('pages.home');
});

Route::get('/', 'UserController@index');
Route::get('user/{id}', 'UserController@show');

Route::get('/foo', function () {
    return 'taobao';
});

UserController.php //simplified

public function index()
{
  $this->oauth();
  return view('user', ['name' => 'James']);
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3298

Answers (5)

Rahul
Rahul

Reputation: 2474

If you need to reuse the same return View::make('pages.home'); or home view in your UserController you can call it as

return view('home', ['name' => 'James']);

or you need to include home view in users view then you can do

@extends('home') or @include('home')

Upvotes: 1

AddWeb Solution Pvt Ltd
AddWeb Solution Pvt Ltd

Reputation: 21681

I think you should try this:

Added below line in your user.blade.php

@include('pages.home')

Upvotes: 1

idelara
idelara

Reputation: 1816

You don't need to put anything specific to the index() method of your Controller. Think of a Controller as the Brains that ehemmm.. "control" what's going to happen, either a long query to the database, calculating some operations, returning a view, or a combination of all.

In your code above Route::get('/', 'UserController@index'); is actually binding the / "address" or route to the method index() of your UserController.

In regards to what you asked, you need to split up your pages.home view so it can be reusable. I recommend you reading the templates documentation.

In short, you could have the following page, called base.blade.php:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Page</title>

    <!-- Bootstrap includes -->
    <!-- JS Includes -->
</head>
<body>
    <nav>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li>
        </ul>
    </nav>

    <div class="content">
        @yield('content')
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Then, we can create 2 more pages.

users.blade.php:

@extends('layouts.base')

@section('content')

    <div> Hello Users!</div>    

@endsection

admins.blade.php:

@extends('layouts.base')

@section('content')

    <div> Hello Admins!</div>    

@endsection

Those two blade templates will inject the HTML inside their correspondent sections, in this case content, into the template base.blade.php whenever they are called. That way, you can "reuse" a view, which is very efficient since changing base.blade.php will change all the views that "inject" or inherit from it.

Now, like you said, in order to "connect" the view to a controller, you simply need to return a view from within a method in that controller. For example:

MyController.php:

MyController extends Controller{

    ...

    public function index()
    {
        // Fancy stuff you might wanna do...

        // Note this will pull the view from within the layout folder
        return view('users');
    }

}

Of course, you need to have a route that is paired with that Controller and that method, which in this case you do.

I hope this helps!

Cheers!

Upvotes: 1

Parantap Parashar
Parantap Parashar

Reputation: 2010

You don't exactly need to connect your view to the controller in Laravel. You just need to put your view to the specific location (Either default or intended).

After you have made your view and stored in the view directory, You can call it inside any controller. There is no strict connection between views and controller in MVC.

You just need to return return View::make('pages.home'); from any controller action you want and reuse it as many times. Or, you can use the helper instead return view('pages.home');

Hope that is what you seek.

Upvotes: 1

brobrobrobrobro
brobrobrobrobro

Reputation: 314

You can try this

public function index()
{
  $this->oauth();
  $user = ['name' => 'James'];
  return view('user', compact('user'));
}

Now you can call $user in user view. Example (using blade): {{ $user['name'] }}, the output would be James

Upvotes: 1

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