Load an HTML file directly from public folder as View in Laravel

Question

I'm using Laravel. I'm trying to put together my own wedding invitation. I have a folder in my public folder, will styles, and scripts for it.

I'm wondering if I can point to that folder, instead of copy-and-paste everything into a new blade file.

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Route

Route::get('/wedding', 'WeddingController@index');

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WeddingController

<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers;

class WeddingController extends Controller {


    public function index()
    {
        return view('wedding.index');
    }

}

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Question

I'm wondering if I can point my index function to load the index.html from one of my folder in my /public folder.

Do we have to load the .blade file from the app/resources/views directory ?

Any helps / suggestions on this will be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Just place the wedding folder directly inside the public folder:

mv wedding/ /path/to/laravel/public

Then visit your site URL with a wedding suffix:

http://my-site.com/wedding

This will load the index.html from inside the wedding folder.

This works via Nginx's try_files directive in your /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/my-site config file:

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}

This instructs Nginx to first search for an actual file corresponding to the URL (for example, /css/app.css, /wedding/index.html, etc). If it does not find a matching file (e.g. it would normally return a 404 not found), then it should instead pass the query string as an argument to the index.php script.

Answer 2

Load static files from controller using File Facade

use File;

return File::get(public_path() . '/to new folder name/index.html');