Use Laravel Blade templates as a standalone component without the full Laravel framework

There is are two classes available with a namespace of duncan3dc\Laravel. One is for regular usage (BladeInstance) and one for static calls (Blade) facade style.

use duncan3dc\Laravel\Blade;
use duncan3dc\Laravel\BladeInstance;

The recommended way of using this library is the BladeInstance class.
The paths used for view templates and for cached files are set by passing them to the constructor:

$blade = new BladeInstance("/var/www/views", "/var/www/cache/views");

Some minor extensions to blade syntax have been made, such as supporting namespaces (see examples below)

Output a basic view (from views/index.blade.php)

echo $blade->render("index");

Check multiple directories for a view (from /var/www/views/index.blade.php if it exists, otherwise /var/www/custom/views/index.blade.php)

$blade = new BladeInstance("/var/www/views");
$blade->addPath("/var/www/custom/views");
echo $blade->render("index");

Declare a namespace for the php generated from the view

@namespace(duncan3dc\Webapps\Calendar)

Import classes for use in the views

@use(duncan3dc\Helpers\Html)

{!! Html::formatKey("project_title") !!}

If you need an Illuminate\View\View object there is also a make() method available

$view = $blade->make("index");

When using the static Blade class, the paths are guessed by assuming this library has been installed in the default composer vendor directory.
/var/www +-- composer.json +-- vendor +-- views +-- cache | +-- views

Output a basic view (from views/index.blade.php)

echo Blade::render("index");

Output a view from a different directory (from /home/webapp/views/index.blade.php)

use duncan3dc\Helpers\Env;

Env::usePath("/home/webapp");
echo Blade::render("index");

You can also use the extra functionality provided by this library inside the Laravel framework.
Just pass your Blade instance to the registerDirectives() method.

\duncan3dc\Laravel\Blade::registerDirectives(\App::make("blade"));