Laravel 5 get view name

Question

I'm struggling to get the view name in L5. Just as in WP, I'd like to add a specific page name (view name) for styling, like so:

<!-- View name: login.blade.php !-->
<div id="page" class="page-login">
    <h1>Inloggen</h1>
</div>

<!-- View name: register.blade.php !-->
<div id="page" class="page-register">
    <h1>Registreren</h1>
</div>

In L4 it can be done using composer to share the var across all views (How can I get the current view name inside a master layour in Laravel 4?). But I only need the view name once for my master layout.

Doing this:

<div id="page" class="page-{{ view()->getName() }}">

Gives me the following error Call to undefined method Illuminate\View\Factory::getName().

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Update your AppServiceProvider by adding a view composer to the boot method and using '*' to share it with all views:

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;    

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Bootstrap any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
        view()->composer('*', function($view){
            $view_name = str_replace('.', '-', $view->getName());
            view()->share('view_name', $view_name);
        });

    }

    /**
     * Register any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function register()
    {
        //
    }
}

{{$view_name}} will be made available to your blade templates.