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kesty/view
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Laravel View Standalone

v1.0.0(8y ago)110MITPHPPHP >=7.0

Since Mar 27Pushed 8y ago1 watchersCompare

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The Lara Blade View | Blade Template Outside Laravel
====================================================

[](#the-lara-blade-view--blade-template-outside-laravel)

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**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) and [Brad Jones](https://github/phpgearbox) for the Blade API.

How to Install
--------------

[](#how-to-install)

Installation via composer is easy:

```
composer require kesty/view: dev-master

```

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 Lara\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' => 'Mike'));
```

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 Lara\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.

---

Original Code by Brad Jones - Maintained and Updated by Olubunmi Tosin -

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community4

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2971d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Tags

laravelbladestandaloneviews

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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