How to Set Variables in a Laravel Blade Template
laravel, laravel-blade, php
Solution
It is discouraged to do in a view so there is no blade tag for it. If you do want to do this in your blade view, you can either just open a php tag as you wrote it or register a new blade tag. Just an example:
<?php
/**
* <code>
* {? $old_section = "whatever" ?}
* </code>
*/
Blade::extend(function($value) {
return preg_replace('/\{\?(.+)\?\}/', '<?php ${1} ?>', $value);
});
Problem
I'm reading the Laravel Blade documentation and I can't figure out how to assign variables inside a template for use later. I can't do `{{ $old_section = "whatever" }}` because that will echo "whatever" and I don't want that. I understand that I can do `<?php $old_section = "whatever"; ?>`, but that's not elegant. Is there a better, elegant way to do that in a Blade template?