Views contain the HTML served by your application, and serve as a convenient method of separating your controller and domain logic from your presentation logic. Views are stored in the resources/views directory.
A simple view looks like this:
<!-- View stored in resources/views/greeting.php -->
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello, <?php echo $name; ?></h1>
</body>
</html>
The view may be returned to the browser like so:
$app->get('/', function() {
return view('greeting', ['name' => 'James']);
});
As you can see, the first argument passed to the view helper corresponds to the name of the view file in the resources/views directory. The second argument passed to helper is an array of data that should be made available to the view.
Of course, views may also be nested within sub-directories of the resources/views directory. For example, if your view is stored at resources/views/admin/profile.php, it should be returned like so:
return view('admin.profile', $data);
// Using conventional approach
$view = view('greeting')->with('name', 'Victoria');
// Using Magic Methods
$view = view('greeting')->withName('Victoria');
In the example above, the variable $name is made accessible to the view and contains Victoria.
If you wish, you may pass an array of data as the second parameter to the view helper:
$view = view('greetings', $data);
When passing information in this manner, $data should be an array with key/value pairs. Inside your view, you can then access each value using it's corresponding key, like {{ $key }} (assuming $data['$key'] exists).
If you need to determine if a view exists, you may use the exists method:
if (view()->exists('emails.customer')) {
//
}
If you wish, you may generate a view from a fully-qualified file path:
return view()->file($pathToFile, $data);