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If anyone is keen to take over these projects, get in touch - The Blade View Gear =================== [](#the-blade-view-gear) [![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/9c1692a707c2356594abc605c65d91d797eb28087cfa89679bafd03615d379bf/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f70687067656172626f782f766965772e737667)](https://travis-ci.org/phpgearbox/view)[![Latest Stable Version](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/d1d25675f0786631686b26e9e1c534753a970248f12a45e67c00256d5c0eb98a/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f67656172732f766965772f762f737461626c652e737667)](https://packagist.org/packages/gears/view)[![Total Downloads](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/02b6b74e8e1fe2bd151a105bf20f5880e63839fd127bcd4e3ab090bdb4c806ca/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f67656172732f766965772f646f776e6c6f6164732e737667)](https://packagist.org/packages/gears/view)[![License](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/ba0fe65c9cc7494de5069dee6b620831fc45ca5030a35647e8c2d542a6aeaef6/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f67656172732f766965772f6c6963656e73652e737667)](https://packagist.org/packages/gears/view) **Laravel Blade Views Standalone** Okay so by now hopefully you have heard of [Laravel](http://laravel.com/), the PHP framework that just makes things easy. So first things first full credit goes to [Taylor Otwell](https://github.com/taylorotwell) for the Blade API. How to Install -------------- [](#how-to-install) Installation via composer is easy: ``` composer require gears/view:* ``` How to Use ---------- [](#how-to-use) In your *legacy* - non Laravel application. You can use the Laravel Blade API like so: ``` // Make sure you have composer included require('vendor/autoload.php'); // Create a new View Instance $views = new Gears\View('/path/to/my/views'); // Next you will probably want to make the view object global. $views->globalise(); ``` And thats it, now you can use code like the following: ``` echo View::make('greeting', array('name' => 'Brad')); ``` Where the view might look like: ``` Hello, ``` For more info on the View API it's self see: View Scope ---------- [](#view-scope) When you run `$views->globalise();` it checks to see if the class `View`exists globally. If not it use the function `class_alias` to alias it's self in much the same a Laravel Application does. This enables us to use the `View` API we are familar with. View Include Path: ------------------ [](#view-include-path) You can provide an array of paths, instead of just one path. So in effect you can have a View Include Path. Very handy for setting up a HMVC type system. Here is an example: ``` $views = new Gears\View(['/views/specific', '/views/generic']); ``` So now for the why? ------------------- [](#so-now-for-the-why) While laravel is so awesomely cool and great. If you want to pull a feature out and use it in another project it can become difficult. Firstly you have to have an innate understanding of the [IoC Container](http://laravel.com/docs/ioc). You then find that this class needs that class which then requires some other config variable that is normally present in the IoC when run inside a normal Laravel App but in your case you haven't defined it and don't really want to define that value because it makes no sense in your lets say *legacy*application. Perfect example is when I tried to pull the session API out to use in wordpress. It wanted to know about a `booted` method, which I think comes from `Illuminate\Foundation\Application`. At this point in time I already had to add various other things into the IoC to make it happy and it was the last straw that broke the camels back, I chucked a coders tantrum, walked to the fridge, grabbed another Redbull and sat back down with a new approach. The result is this project. --- Developed by Brad Jones - ### Health Score 28 — LowBetter than 54% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity16 Limited adoption so far Community10 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity54 Maturing project, gaining track record Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window. **Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores. **Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement. **Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability. ### Release Activity Cadence Every ~12 days Total 2 Last Release 4245d ago ### Community Maintainers ![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/2b476564958ffc91db5580080738e529644f820bdfec6a6c4d397f9c5da45065?d=identicon)[brad-jones](/maintainers/brad-jones) --- Top Contributors [![brad-jones](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2754772?v=4)](https://github.com/brad-jones "brad-jones (7 commits)") --- Tags laravelbladestandaloneviews ### Code Quality TestsPHPUnit ### Embed Badge ![Health badge](/badges/gears-view/health.svg) ``` [![Health](https://phpackages.com/badges/gears-view/health.svg)](https://phpackages.com/packages/gears-view) ``` ### Alternatives [philo/laravel-blade Use the simple and yet powerful Laravel Blade templating engine as a standalone component. 354673.2k59](/packages/philo-laravel-blade) PHPackages © 2026 [Directory](/)[Categories](/categories)[Trending](/trending)[Changelog](/changelog)[Analyze](/analyze)