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Hello,
I would like to know what is the best way of generating page titles in Laravel please. I understand how to do it in pure PHP but with Laravel I am a bit lost.
For example, you have a main layout file, inside the layout file you have partials, if a partial shows content "XYZ" and that in this content I have already a field "title", how can I pass this $data->title that may come from multiple controllers to the main layout file, this is the part that confuses me.
I hope I explain it correctly:-)
Thanks!
You can pass variables to the parent like this:
about.blade.php
@extends('layout', ['title' => 'About'])
@section('content')
<h1>About</h1>
@endsection
layout.blade.php
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>
@isset($title)
{{ $title }} |
@endisset
{{ config('app.name') }}
</title>
</head>
<body>
@yield('content')
</body>
</html>
Thanks Swaz, I will give it a try
IMO it's cleaner to yield a section called 'title' in your main layout blade.
layout.blade.php
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>@yield('title', 'some default title to show if child doesnt set one')</title>
</head>
<body>
@yield('content')
</body>
</html>
test.blade.php
@extends('layout.blade.php')
@section('title', 'Test Page')
@section('content')
<h1>Test Page</h1>
@endsection
As ever there are many different ways. I use view()->share('siteTitle','the title for this page') in the controller and then in the master layout;
<title>{{ $siteTitle or 'SpeakerNet' }}</title>
There's no 'correct' answer
@Boubou I just define a section called title in my master layout, that defaults to the site name:
<!-- /resources/views/layouts/app.blade.php -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>@yield('title', config('app.name'))</title>
</head>
</html>
I can then set it in Blade templates that extend this template:
<!-- /resources/views/home.blade.php -->
@extends('layouts.app')
@section('title', 'Home')
Another way I use to get some automatism :
I have a config for titles based on routes names :
<?php
return [
'admin' => 'dashboard',
'users' => [
'index' => 'usersGestion',
'edit' => 'userEdit',
],
...
And lang files for translations :
<?php
'titles' => [
'dashboard' => 'Dashboard',
'usersGestion' => 'Users Gestion',
'userEdit' => 'User Edition',
'contactsGestion' => 'Contacts Gestion',
...
Then in a view composer :
$title = config('titles.' . Route::currentRouteName());
$title = __('admin.titles.' . $title);
$view->with(compact('title', '...));
So in layout just set :
{{ $title }}
And it works :)
I know this is an old post but this is such an elegent solution. Top marks from me on this solution.
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