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@yaddly You're not doing anything wrong — this is not a bug, but a PHP language rule.
Check details here: https://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.arguments.php#functions.named-arguments
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Apr 3, 2025
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Passing named arguments to include blade directive throws error
Good day laracons, I encountered a peculiar phenomenon while I was doing a tutorial. I used the include blade directive as below and it throw a fatal error 'Cannot use positional argument after named argument'. However, removing the named arguments resolves the error, however, it makes the code hard to read or nebulous.
Throws Error:
@include(view: 'components.partial-views.input', data: ['input_name' => 'company-name', 'input_id' => 'company-name'])
Simple Fix:
@include('components.partial-views.input', ['input_name' => 'company-name', 'input_id' => 'company-name'])
Is this a bug or there is something genuinely wrong with my code?
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@tisuchi Thank you for pointing me to the documentation for insights
Level 50
This has to do with how the Blade directives are compiled. They're not PHP function calls.
In other words, you can't use named arguments with the @include directive.
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@JussiMannisto Thank you for your invaluable comments and directing me to the repo to examine the code.
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I woukd probably rewrite as a component where you can use similar nemed parameters
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@Snapey Thank you for your insights but this would be too much work that achieves so little. I find named parameters making code more elegantly readable.
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