Laravel View Themes

View themes is a simple package to provide themed view support to Laravel.

Installation

Add alexwhitman/view-themes to the require section of your composer.json file.

"alexwhitman/view-themes": "1.2.x"

Run composer update to install the latest version.

Setup

This package extends Laravels built in ViewServiceProvider, so that provider must be replaced in app/config/app.php. Replace the instance of 'Illuminate\View\ViewServiceProvider', with 'AlexWhitman\ViewThemes\ViewThemesServiceProvider',.

Configuration

The default settings are for the themes to be in a themes directory in app/ with the default theme called default.

app/
    themes/
        default/
            views/

To change these defaults the package config will need to be published with artisan config:publish alexwhitman/view-themes. The new config file, app/config/packages/alexwhitman/view-themes/config.php, can then be customised as required.

Usage

A standard call to View::make('index') will look for an index view in app/themes/default/views/. However, if a theme is specified with $app['view.finder']->setCurrentTheme('my-theme'); prior to calling View::make() then the view will first be looked for in app/themes/my-theme/views. If the view is not found for the current theme the default theme will then be searched.

Facade

The ViewTheme facade can also be used if preferred ViewTheme::setCurrentTheme('my-theme') by adding an entry for AlexWhitman\ViewThemes\ThemeFacade to app/config/app.php.

Example

Given a directory structure of

app/
    themes/
        default/
            views/
                layout.blade.php
                admin.blade.php
        my-theme/
            views/
                layout.blade.php

View::make('layout'); // Loads app/themes/default/views/layout.blade.php

$app['view.finder']->setCurrentTheme('my-theme');

View::make('layout'); // Loads app/themes/my-theme/views/layout.blade.php
View::make('admin'); // Loads app/themes/default/views/layout.blade.php

Changelog

1.2.0

• Update for Laravel 4.2

1.1.2

• Add function to get current theme path

1.1.1

• Clear previous paths on initialise

1.1.0

• Update for Laravel 4.1

1.0.0

• Initial release