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froiden/knife
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Laravel package providing additional blade directives.

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Knife
=====

[](#knife)

Knife is an extension for Laravel's Blade template engine to support some handy directives that are not included in default blade syntax.

Supported Directives
--------------------

[](#supported-directives)

- **@datetime**, **@date**, **@time** - Display date-time, date and time as string respectively. Directives accepts all valid dates/objects that can be parsed by [Carbon's](http://carbon.nesbot.com) parse method. You can use **config file** for knife to define date-time format to be used.
- **@use** - Import a class from a different namespace and use it in code without always specifying full class path.
- **@nl2br** - Display text with new lines replaced by `` tag.
- **@escape** - Display text by escaping quotes and other characters. It basically used `addslashes()` method. Its very useful when outputting text in JavaScript string.
- **@breakpoint** - Add an **xdebug** breakpoint at the specified place. Helps in debugging generated views.
- **@set** - Define a new variable.

This is first version of library. More directives will be added soon.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

**Note:** Knife is only supported on **Laravel 5.1** or later.

1. First add library using composer:

    `composer require froiden/knife:~5.1`
2. Add service provider to `app.php`:

    ```
    Froiden\Knife\KnifeServiceProvider::class
    ```

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

You can specify date-time formats to be used by in Knife's config file. To use this, export the config file as follows:

`php artisan vendor:publish`

The config file with name **knife.php** will be created in the config folder where all other configs are.

Some examples
-------------

[](#some-examples)

```
@use('Carbon\Carbon') // Observe that we have used only Carbon below instead of \Carbon\Carbon

@datetime('now') // 28th August 2015, 11:27 am
@date('now') // 28th August 2015
@time('2015-08-28 09:37:38') // 09:37 am

@set($count, 1)
{{ $count++ }} // 1
{{ $count++ }} // 2

@set($new)
{{ $new }}
{{ Carbon::now() }} // 2015-08-28 09:37:38

$bio =