How do I pass a variable to the layout using Laravel' Blade templating?

Question

In Laravel 4, my controller uses a Blade layout:

class PagesController extends BaseController {     protected $layout = 'layouts.master'; } 

The master layout has outputs the variable title and then displays a view:

... <title>{{ $title }}</title> ... @yield('content') .... 

However, in my controller I only appear to be able to pass variables to the subview, not the layout. For example, an action could be:

public function index() {     $this->layout->content = View::make('pages/index', array('title' => 'Home page')); } 

This will only pass the $title variable to the content section of the view. How can I provide that variable to the whole view, or at the very least the master layout?

Answer 1

If you're using @extends in your content layout you can use this:

@extends('master', ['title' => $title]) 

Note that same as above works with children, like:

@include('views.subView', ['my_variable' => 'my-value']) 

Usage

Then where variable is passed to, use it like:

<title>{{ $title ?? 'Default Title' }}</title>