Yii2 Blade Layout

Blade layout extension system for Yii2 framework.

What's Yii2 Blade Layout?

This module adds support to Blade Layout system in your Yii2 app installation.

Developed by Joseba Juániz (@Patroklo)

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Minimum requirements

• Yii2

License

This is free software. It is released under the terms of the following BSD License.

Copyright (c) 2014, by Cyneek All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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3. Neither the name of Cyneek nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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Instalation

• Install Yii 2
• Install package via composer "cyneek/yii2-blade": "*"
• Update config file 'config/web.php'

...
'components' => [
        'view' => [
            'class' => 'yii\web\View',
            'renderers' => [
                'blade' => [
                    'class' => '\cyneek\yii2\blade\ViewRenderer',
                    'cachePath' => '@runtime/blade_cache',
                ],
            ],
        ],
]
...

• Make a _bladecache directory in your @runtime directory writable by the web user.
• Profit!

Parameters

• cachePath [String/Required] Directory where Blade Layout system will store the view files once they are treated. Should be writable by the web server user (for example www-data).
• viewPaths [String[]/Optional] Array holding a list of directories where views and layouts will be stored. This is not really necessary since the system will get the view paths once they are retrieved to the Blade Wrapper.
• extension [String/Optional] It you are going to use another extension than .blade for your view files, it should be stated here as well as in the array key of the renderers array.

Using the layout parameter

It's possible to define the controller's parameter layout with a Blade file. But since the Yii2 view render system it's not 100% compatible with the Blade Layout rendering, you'll have to add a behavior to that controller called BladeBehavior that will integrate both systems.

To add this behavior you'll only have to include:

    public function behaviors()
    {
        return [
            ...
            'blade' => [
                'class' => BladeBehavior::className()
            ],
            ...
        ];
    }

Then the layout view file will be rendered before the views if both layout and view files have a blade file extension. If not, Yii2 normal rendering system will be used instead.

Using the $view instead of $this

The object $this can't be used in Blade templates due to compatibility problems with the Blade system callings.

So, instead of this object I made the $view object that has the same functionalities than the $this in a normal layout system.

For example , if you want to pass $this->title from content view to layout view, just use $view->title ,and in the layout view , you can get title by using $this->title.

Blade template instructions

The Laravel framework documentation has an extensive guide about how to work with Blade template system. Everything should be compatible with this module since it uses the same libraries in the background.

Link to the basic Blade documentation in Laravel homepage