Laravel Blade @include .html files

Question

Include HTML files with blade

Can I include a .html file in stead of .php with Laravel 4 Blade?

My code:

@include('emails.templates.file')
  //file is email.html

file is automatically a .php file..

Solution 1

While @PHPWeblineindia's solution worked for you, it's not really the Laravel way.

However, you can do what you want by telling Laravel's view system to also consider .html files. By default it looks for .blade.php files, and then falls back to .php files. You can add .html to the searched extensions by adding the following somewhere in your bootstrapping code:

// tells the view finder to look for `.html` files and run
// them through the normal PHP `include` process
View::addExtension('html', 'php');

This will actually put HTML as the highest priority, so make sure you don't have two different views called the same thing with different extensions.

Solution 2

If its an external file then can you please try this:

<?php include app_path() . '/views/<path_to_layout/emails>/file.html'; ?>

Let me know if its still an issue.

Comments

[Peter Drinnan]

You can also add this to the base controller to apply globally.

[alexrussell]

True but I'd suggest in the application bootstrapping code (or a service provider, which is pretty much the same thing) rather than in a base controller just in case.

[C.Liddell]

@alexrussell What do you mean by bootstrapping code and where would that be located at in Laravel? I am fairly new to Laravel running Laravel 5.2 and I've tried adding View::addExtension to my BaseController inside the protected method setupLayout(). The result of this is when trying to use include, Laravel simply returns View [view.name] not found where view.name has an .html extension.

[alexrussell]

Based on the timing of my original answer, it was actually more geared to Laravel 4.2. However, application bootstrapping code is kinda universal - basically any code that runs before most of the rest. In L4.2 the standard (albeit dirty) way was to put it in the routes file. Since L5, we've have the service providers, so maybe the AppServiceProvider, or, ideally, new service provider that does the required view changes. That said, I don't know if the original View::addExtension() call still stands in L5.

[C.Liddell]

@alexrussell Thanks for the help anyway. I'll open up a new question specific to Laravel 5, I do not believe that View::addExtension() works any longer.

[C.Liddell]

I was mistaken earlier. View::addExtension() does indeed work I just never called the setupLayout() method from within the controller. None the less if it helps anyone else, the new question is located here.

[Prashant Pokhriyal]

@C.Liddell where I've to call setupLayout() method?