Loading a laravel view with .html extension

Question

Is it possible to have Laravel load view templates with a .html extension?

I'm rebuilding an existing app that has a bunch of .html files that are uploaded by users. It's a sort of multi-tenant application where each user can control the look and feel of their area by uploading templates.

I need to rebuild the app and make the change completely transparent to the users so I'd like to keep the .html extensions.

Answer 1

The best way I have found is to use View::addExtension in your base controller;

Here's my code sample:

View::addExtension('blade.html','blade');

class BaseController extends Controller {

    /**
     * Setup the layout used by the controller.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    protected function setupLayout()
    {

        // Allows us to use easy-to-edit html extension files.
        // You can set 2nd param to 'php' is you want to 
        // just process with php (no blade tags)
        View::addExtension('blade.html','blade');


        if ( ! is_null($this->layout))
        {
            $this->layout = View::make($this->layout);
        }
    }
}