The About Page Goes Here

Level 104

It's hard to understand what your directory structure is -- this is the structure I would expect given the template you describe:

resources
└── views
    ├── about.blade.php
    ├── layout.blade.php
    └── welcome.blade.php

Level 6

@NickZucco you only need to add dot

like your file in resources/views/my_aswome_views/content.blade.php

in your blade template you need to extend content view add it like this

@extends('my_aswome_views.content')

Level 1

I would like to add an image of my current structure, but I can't seem to find a way to do it. I tried drag and drop and that didn't work.

Also (sorry for my newbness) how can I add those blackboxes with code? Using HTML?

Level 6

Hi,

you need to follow

https://help.github.com/categories/writing-on-github/

Level 1

This would be my actual folder structure, notice how the about view is inside a pages folder, instead of just being inside the views folder.


resources
└── views
    └──pages
        └── about.blade.php
    └──layout.blade.php
    └── welcome.blade.php

@khaledSMQ thanks for your reply, but in this case I don't want to extend the about view, rather the layout one. So, in the about.blade.php I tried:


@extends('layout')

That means, from a view inside my pages folder (according to my structure) I'm trying to extend another view that is outside, just in the views folder. Any further help would be most appreciated.

Level 6

okay look for this example

// this is your master layout
<html>
    <head>
        <title>App Name - @yield('title')</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        @section('sidebar')
            This is the master sidebar.
        @show

        <div class="container">
            @yield('content')
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

// this is your about page

@extends('layout')

@section('title', 'About ME')

@section('sidebar')
    @parent
    <p>This is appended to the master sidebar.</p>
@endsection

@section('content')
    <p>This is my body content.</p>
@endsection

Level 1

Thanks again Khaled. I tried your example but it didn't result as expected.

My conclusion:

Using Laravel 5.2, you can only expand a layout file correctly when both files (in my case: layout and about) are in the views folder, and not within another folder inside views.

Level 6

Hi , from my understanding your folders like this.

resources
└── views
    └──pages
        └── about.blade.php
    └──layout.blade.php
    └── welcome.blade.php

means your about page it's inside pages folder, and the layout inside view folder means in your route.php or controller you need only to return the about like this

 return view('pages.about');

Level 1

Yeah, that's exactly what I was trying in my controller, which seemed quite logical.

But when actually seeing the webpage I get a content that doesn't correspond to the code present in my about view.

Then I moved the about view out of that pages folder and pasted it just in the views folder and did this


return view('about');

With that it worked perfectly... So I really cannot understand the reason for this. I also have this welcome.blade.php as you can see. When the about view is inside the pages folder, and I load in my browser the /about URL, the content corresponds to the content of the welcome view and not the about view. So weird.