Hello all! In this article, we will talk about how to create custom blade directive in laravel. you’ll learn laravel custom blade directives. We will use laravel create custom blade directives. we will help you to give example of custom blade directive laravel.
what is directive in laravel blade template. you can create your own @var, @if, @case directive that we help you to avoid write so many time same code and you can reuse it easily.
In this post, i will give you simple example of creating custom blade directives in laravel and you can easily use with laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8 and laravel 9 app. we will create @nl2br blade directive and use it with example. we almost need nl2br() for textarea value displcy. you can see bellow layout.
Preview:
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Step 1: Create Custom Blade Directive
in app service provide file you have to declare custom blade directive. so let’s add code as bellow:
app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php
<?php
namespace App\Providers;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator;
use Blade;
class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
/**
* Register any application services.
*
* @return void
*/
public function register()
{
}
/**
* Bootstrap any application services.
*
* @return void
*/
public function boot()
{
Paginator::useBootstrap();
Blade::directive('nl2br', function ($string) {
return "<?php echo nl2br($string); ?>";
});
}
}
Step 2: Create Route
now we will create one route for example how to use custom directives in laravel blade. let’s add as bellow:
routes/web.php
Route::get('directive', function () {
$body = '';
if(request()->filled('body')){
$body = request()->body;
}
return view('directive', compact('body'));
});
Step 3: Create Blade File
Here, you need to use @nl2br directive in this blade file as like bellow:
routes/web.php
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
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<form>
<strong>Enter Something:</strong>
<textarea name="body" class="form-control" style="height: 200px"></textarea>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">Submit</button>
</form>
<p>Body:</p>
<p>@nl2br($body)</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
you can try your own.
I hope it can help you.