Blade

The standalone version of Laravel's Blade templating engine for use outside of Laravel.

Installation

Install using composer:

composer require cyberhawk/blade

Compatibility

• Laravel 12.x and 13.x
• PHP 8.4+

Usage

Create a Blade instance by passing it the folder(s) where your view files are located, and a cache folder. Render a template by calling the make method. More information about the Blade templating engine can be found at https://laravel.com/docs/13.x/blade.

use Cyberhawk\Blade\Blade;

$blade = new Blade('views', 'cache');

echo $blade->make('homepage', ['name' => 'John Doe'])->render();

Alternatively you can use the shorthand method render:

echo $blade->render('homepage', ['name' => 'John Doe']);

You can also extend Blade using the directive() function:

$blade->directive('datetime', function ($expression) {
    return "<?php echo with({$expression})->format('F d, Y g:i a'); ?>";
});

Which allows you to use the following in your blade template:

Current date: @datetime($date)

The Blade instance passes all methods to the internal view factory. So methods such as exists, file, share, composer and creator are available as well. Check out the original documentation for more information.

You may also pass an existing Illuminate container instance as the third constructor argument when embedding Blade into a larger application.

Integrations

• Phalcon Slayer Framework comes out of the box with Blade.