Im going to share how to make a dynamic Controller layout in Laravel 4. This post is for those who might prefer Controller Layout templating instead of Blade.1. Open your BaseController.php ( inside Controllers folder) and add a property into it
class BaseController extends Controller { /** * Setup the layout used by the controller. * * @return void */ /*Set a layout properties here, so you can globally call it in all of your Controllers*/ protected $layout = 'layouts.default'; protected function setupLayout() { if ( ! is_null($this->layout)) { $this->layout = View::make($this->layout); } }}the layouts.default refers to your View files. if you haven't created it, then go to Views, create new folder and files 'layouts/default.php' for example.
in that file (default.php) you can write your own layout, lets pretend you wrote :
2. Now you can call your layout inside your Controller like this
class HomeController extends BaseController { public function showHome() { /*now you can control your Layout it here */ $this->layout->title= "Hi I am a title"; //add a dynamic title $this->layout->content = View::make('home'); }}
3. If you're going to make the content to be dynamic and you put it inside your default layout.Now lets go to Views and create a file named 'myContent.php'. write codes inside it
Halooo, im a dynamic content
Now go back to your default layout ( default.php) and edit the codes :
Now you can Call it inside your Controller :
.................................. public function showContent() { $this->layout->title= "Hi I am a content"; $this->layout->content = View::make('myContent'); }...............................
And there you Go. Your Dynamic Layout ( non-blade templating) is ready.Thank You.Reference : http://laravel.com/docs/templates