How to include a blade template only if it exists?

Question

How to @include a blade template only if it exists ? I could do something like that :

@if (File::exists('great/path/to/blade/template.blade.php'))
   @include('path.to.blade.template')
@endif

But that really isn't elegant and efficient.

I could include it without if statements, and catch & hide errors if the file isn't here, but that is a little dirty, if not barbaric.

What would be great is something like that :

@includeifexists('path.to.blade.template')

(pseudo code, but this blade command does not exist)

Answer 1

Had a similar issue. Turns out there is an @includeIf blade directive for this purpose.

Simply do @includeIf('path.to.blade.template')

Answer 2

You can use View::exists() to check if a view exists or not.

@if(View::exists('path.to.view'))
    @include('path.to.view')
@endif

Or you can extend blade and add new directive

Blade::directive('includeIfExists', function($view) {

});

Check out the official document here: http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/blade#extending-blade

Answer 3

Late to the show, but there's another quite handy template function:

Often you'd like to include a template when it is present, or include some other template if not. This could result in quite ugly if-then constructs, even when you use '@includeIf'. You can alse do this:

@includeFirst([$variableTemplateName, "default"]);

This will include - as the function name suggests - the first template found.