Blade templates inside CodeIgniter

Install

Install Composer as described at composer documentation

Create composer.json inside your root project directory if you do not have one and specify the dependency for this package

{
    "require": {
        "goodwords/support-laravel": "dev-master"
    },
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "[email protected]:goodwords/support-laravel.git"
        }
    ]
}

Install the package running composer install

Setup

Require composer inside your www/index.php and pass configuration inside the package

require dirname(__FILE__).'/../vendor/autoload.php';

\Goodwords\Support\Laravel\Provider::register([
    'view' => [
        'paths' => [ 'path/to/directory/where/blade/templates/are/located' ],
        'compiled' => 'path/to/directory/where/to/cache/compiled/templates',
    ]
]);

Use Blade tamplates

Use global function view() to render yor templates

return view('templateName');

return view('templateDirectory/templateName');

return view('templateName')->with('variableName', $variableValue);

return view('templateName', ['variableName'=>$variableValue]);