impactwave / razorblade
An extension to Laravel's Blade templating engine
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README
An extension to Laravel's Blade templating engine.
Instalation
Requirements
- PHP version >= 5.4
How to install
Install via Composer:
composer require impactwave/razorblade
Register the service provider
Open the config/app.php
file included with Laravel, you will see a providers array.
Add the following string to that array:
'Impactwave\Razorblade\RazorbladeServiceProvider'
Blade Extensions
Besides providing some new Blade directives (see below), Razorblade also adds Custom Directives to Blade.
What are Custom Directives?
Creating a Blade syntax extension is not too difficult, but it's not very easy either. You'll have to deal with regular expressions and low-level implementation details. In practice, few people have the skills and patience to do it, so extensions are seldom used.
What if you could easily create your own syntactic extensions to Blade and make your templates more readable and easier to write?
Razorblade provides you with a simple and easy way to do it, called Custom Directives.
You just create a simple static method on a class of your choosing, with a specific call signature,
and you can immediately call it from Blade.
Implementing the method itself to perform some useful work is also quite simple.
Razorblade provides you with some predefined custom directives on the
Impactwave\Razorblade\Directives
class. See the documentation for them further below.
Simple Custom Directives
The simplest kind of custom directive allows you to invoke a method and replace the custom directive call with the output from it.
The method can, optionally, receive one or more arguments from the template.
Syntax
@@[class::]method [(args)]
Note:
[]
brackets are not part of the syntax, they denote optional elements.
Generated pseudo-code
{{ class::method (args) }}
- Parenthesis are optional; ex:
@@a::b
instead of@@a::b()
. class
is a fully qualified class name; ex:my\namespace\myClass
or justmyClass
.- If
class
is not specified,Impactwave\Razorblade\Directives
is assumed.
Custom Directive implementation
The method implementing the custom directive should have the following signature:
static public function directiveName ($arg1, ...) {}
$arg1, ...
denotes a list of optional arguments. It may be completely ommited.- The method should return a string. Alternatively, the output it generates may instead be sent to the normal PHP output buffer,
either using
echo
or a markup block (?> ...markup... <?php
).
Compile-time code generation
If a {$method}_compiler
method exists, Razorblade will invoke it at compile-time to generate the compiled code for inclusion on the template, instead of generating code to call $method
at runtime. This allows you to have complete control over the generated code.
The compiler method signature must be:
static public function directiveName_compiler ($arg1, ...) {}
Block Custom Directives
A custom directive, besides (optionally) having regular function-like
arguments, can also process a full block of markup, like some of the predefined Blade constructs do (like, for instance,
the @if (...args) ...markup... @endif
construct does).
Syntax
@@[class::]method [(args)]:
html markup
@@end[class::]method
Note:
[]
brackets are not part of the syntax, they denote optional elements.
args
it's a list of arguments and it's optional.- Parenthesis are optional; ex:
@@a::b
instead of@@a::b()
. class
is a fully qualified class name; ex:my\namespace\myClass
or justmyClass
.- If
class
is not specified,Impactwave\Razorblade\Directives
is assumed.
Generated pseudo-code
{{ class::method (indentSpace,html,...args) }}
Custom Directive implementation
The method implementing the custom directive should have the following signature:
static public function directiveName ($indentSpace, $html, $arg1, ...) {}
$arg1, ...
denotes a list of optional arguments. It may be completely ommited.$indentSpace
is a string comprised of white space, corresponding to the indentation level of the source markup block.$html
is the markup block defined between the opening and the closing custom directive tag (@@tag ... @@endtag
).- The method should return a string. Alternatively, the output it generates may instead be sent to the normal PHP output buffer,
either using
echo
or a markup block (?> ...markup... <?php
).
Compile-time code generation
If a {$method}_compiler
method exists, Razorblade will invoke it at compile-time to generate the compiled code for inclusion on the template, instead of generating code to call $method
at runtime. This allows you to have complete control over the generated code.
The compiler method signature must be:
static public function directiveName_compiler ($indentSpace, $html, $arg1, ...) {}
Boolean attribute generation
A shorter and more readable syntax for generating boolean html attributes.
It outputs a valueless attribute if the argument is true, otherwise it suppresses the attribute completely, including any preceding white space.
Syntax
attribute="@boolAttr (expression)"
Output
Ex:
<option selected>
iftrue
, or<option>
iffalse
.
Generated pseudo-code
<?php echo $expression ? '$precedentSpace$attrName' : '' ?>
- Parenthesis are optional; ex:
@attr a::b
instead of@attr a::b()
Predefined Custom Directives
@@field
Generates a Bootstrap-compatible form field with automatic data-binding and error display
The generated field has several features that significantly simplify your markup, making it shorter and more readable, and saving you from typing repetitive boilerplace markup and Blade directives.
The form field will:
- automatically display the current value from the view's model.
- automatically have an associated label, if one is specified on the custom directive call.
The label is bound to the field, so that it is accessibility-enabled and when the uses clicks the label, the field becames focused.
In case of a form validation error upon submission, the custom directive generates a form field that:
- displays the value that was submitted;
- replaces mentions to the field name by the corresponding field label;
- replaces mentions to a related field name by the corresponding field label (ex. for a 'Confirm password' field);
- if the field's value is invalid:
- sets the field CSS class to an error class, so that the field is marked as invalid;
- displays a validation error message;
You can also specify which IDs and CSS classes to apply to several elements on the generated markup.
The custom directive should wrap an arbitrary form field, which you should specify in plain HTML.
Do not specify the
name
orvalue
attributes on the form field's tag. They will be filled in by the custom directive based on its arguments.
Blade syntax
@@field (name, label, options) <input type="any-type-you-want" any-attr-you-want> or <textarea></textarea> or <select></select> @@endfield
PHP call syntax
Directives::field ('', '<input type="text">', 'name', 'Your name', ['id'=>'idField'])
-
name
: the field name. For array fields (ex: select multiple), append [] to the field name. -
label
: if ommited, no label will be generated. If it's empty, an empty label will be output. -
options
: an array that may specify:
@@token
Generates a CSRF token
Outputs a hidden form field with a CSRF token for use by Laravel's CSRF middleware.
Syntax
@@token
@@includePublic
Includes public files
Unlinke Blade's @include
, which includes templates from the view
directory, this directive includes a file from a location inside the public web directory.
This is similar to an Apache server-side include. It can be useful for a designer while developing a user interface mockup.
The file can be a static HTML page or it can be a dynamic PHP file, but not a template.
Syntax
@@includePublic ('relative/path/to/file.html')
@@includeStatic
Includes a static (or client-side) template
Inserts a template read from a location inside the views
directory, directly into the current Blade template, without any further processing (i.e. the template is inserted exactly as it was read, without any dynamic execution).
Syntax
@@includeStatic (path)
path
: the template's file path, relative to theviews
directory.
@@clientSideTemplate
Embeds a client-side template
This custom directive is quite useful for embedding client-side templates on the generated page. You can do it like this:
Syntax
@@clientSideTemplate (id, path, type = 'text/template')
id
: the javascript template ID.path
: the template's file path, relative to theviews
directory.type
[optional]: the type attribute for the generatedscript
tag. Defaults to'text/template'
.
Generated pseudo-code
<script id="myTemplate" type="text/template"> ...template markup... </script>
In this example, client-side templates would be placed inside the views/client-side
directory, right next to the other server-side templates.
The advantage of this kind of template embedding is that templates will be already available when the page loads, and further XHR requests will not be required to load the client-side templates.
@@validationErrors
Displays form validation errors
Generates a Bootstrap-compatible alert box that displays an alert title and text, followed by all error messages that resulted from the last form validation.
Syntax
@@validationErrors (type = 'info')
type
: The error type:error|info|success|warning
. Defaults toinfo
.
Requirements
You must define the following localization keys:
@@flashMessage
Displays a flash message
Displays a flash message that was set on the previous request.
Syntax
@@flashMessage
A flash message is stored on the Session
's message
key with the format: 'type|message|title'
.
type
: The error type:error|info|success|warning
. Defaults towarning
.message
: the message.type
: an optional title.
@@toastrMessage
Displays a Toastr message
Displays a popup flash message using the Toastr javascript plugin.
Syntax
@@toastrMessage
See @@flashMessage
for more information.
@@php
Embeds PHP code inline
Allows the inclusion of a block of PHP code inside a blade template without using <?php ?>
tags.
It is required if you want to embed PHP code on Blade templates that use Razorblade block custom directives.
Warning: if you use
<?php ?>
tags on Blade templates, block custom directives will not be compiled, as inlined PHP blocks split template compilation into separate fragments, which will interfere with the compilation logic.
Syntax
@@php:
$v = "my PHP code";
// etc...
@@endphp
The Form
utility class
The Impactwave\Razorblade\Form
class provides several static utility methods that are best used in conjunction with the predefined Razorblade custom directives.
Form::flash
Allows sending flash messages to be viewed on the next request. It has support for 4 types of messages and allows setting an optional title.
Hint: use the
@@flashMessage
or@@toastrMessage
custom directives for displaying the message.
Syntax
flash ($message, $title = '', $type = Form::ALERT_INFO)
string $message
: The message to be displayed.string $title
: An optional title for the alert box.string $type
: The alert type:error|info|success|warning
. You can also use one of theForm::ALERT_xxx
constants.
Form::fieldIs
Checks if the field's currently submitted value matches the given value.
If the field's value is an array (being the field name suffixed by []
), this will match the reference value against all array values (for instance, in the case of multiple radio buttons for the same field, or for a multi-select dropdown).
Syntax
Form::fieldIs ($field, $value)
string $field
: Field name.string $value
: Field value to match.
Form::fieldWas
Checks if the field's previously submitted value matches the given value.
If the field's value was an array (being the field name suffixed by []
), this will match the reference value against all array values (for instance, in the case of multiple radio buttons for the same field, or for a multi-select dropdown).
Syntax
Form::fieldWas ($field, $value)
string $field
: Field name.string $value
: Field value to match.
Form::setModel
Sets the data to be initially displayed on a form, before the form is submitted for the first time.
Use this in conjunction with the @@field
custom directives and Form::validate()
.
Syntax
Form::setModel ($model)
array $model
: The form data, as a map of field names to field values.
Form::validate
Shortcut method for form data validation.
If validates the form input and, if it fails:
- flashes an error message;
- generates a redirection to the same URL;
- saves on the session the validation error messages and the submitted form values, so that they can be redisplayed on the next request.
Hint: use this in conjunction with
@@field
custom directives to easily create a form with validation.
Usage
Place the validate
call on the controller method that handles the POST request.
$err = Util::validate([ 'password' => 'required|min:8', 'password2' => 'required|same:password', etc... ]); if ($err) return $err; // continue handling the form
array $rules
: A map of field names to validation rules.array $messages
: [optional] Custom error messages. See the Laravel documentation for theValidator
class.array $customAttributes
: [optional] Custom attributes. See the Laravel documentation for theValidator
class.- Returns:
false|\Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse
-false
if the form validates successfully, otherwise, a redirection response.
Requirements
You must define the following localization keys:
License
The MIT license. See the accompanying LICENSE
file.
Copyright © 2016 Cláudio Silva and Impactwave, Lda