Including PHP files with Laravel framework

Question

I am trying to "include" a php script into one of my views (landing.blade.php).

The script is in:

/laravel-master/public/assets/scripts/config.php 

When I try to include this code in the view:

<?php include_once('/assets/scripts/config.php'); ?> 

I get the error: include_once(/assets/scripts/config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

This is on localhost using MAMP. I'm not sure if there is a different set of rules I need to use with Laravel 4 to include a php file. Thank you for your help!

Answer 1

First, it's not really recommended that you keep your PHP files in the public directory, they should be kept inside the app folder. I'd suggest you create a folder inside app, something like includes and put your files there. Then, you include it, do:

include(app_path().'/includes/config.php'); 

Although, since it looks like you're trying to load some configuration files, I'd recommend you also check out Laravel's own way of handling configurations. For instance, if you created a myapp.php file inside the app/config folder, Laravel would handle it automatically for you, as long as you'd have some key-value pairs, like this:

<?php  return [     'name'     => 'Raphael',     'gorgeous' => true ]; 

You could then retrieve these values using the Config class:

Config::get('myapp.name'); // Raphael 

This is a better solution because you can also take advantage of Laravel's environment configuration.

Answer 2

You can use includes in HTML forget about concatenation

@include('foldername.filename')  @include('filename')