laravel blade @include not working

Question

I am trying to include files in my homepage using blade syntax :-

@foreach($data as $articles)
    @include(app_path().$articles->path)
    <br />
@endforeach

This is not working.

The error says :-

View [/var/www/blogproject/project/app/pages/articles/first-post.php] not found

I even tried including just the first page :-

@include(app_path().'/pages/articles/first-post.php')

But the normal php include is working fine :-

<?php include(app_path().'/pages/articles/first-post.php'); ?>

Please help

Solution

That's because that file is not in the app/views directory. When you call @include('filename'), Blade automatically looks for any file with that name, inside the apps/views directory. Also, you're not supposed to write the file extension, as Blade automatically looks for files with .blade.php and .php extensions.

If you want to use files from other directories on the @include tag, add the directory to the paths array, on app/config/view.php. In your case, it'd be something like this:

app/config/view.php

<?php

    // ...

    'paths' => array(
        __DIR__.'/../views',
        __DIR__.'/../pages'
    );

Then, you'd call it on blade like so:

@include('articles/first-post')