php - How to load view from alternative directory in Laravel 4

Question

In my Laravel 4 application's root directory, I have a folder themes. Inside the themes folder, I have default and azure. How can I access view from this themes/default folder in a specific route.

Route::get('{slug}', function($slug) {
    // make view from themes/default here
});

My directory structure:

-app

--themes

---default

---azure

I need to load views from localhost/laravel/app/themes/default folder. Please explain this.

Answer 1

This is entirely possible with Laravel 4. What you're after is actually the view environment. You can register namespace hints or just extra locations that the finder will cascade too. Take a look here

You'd add a location like so:

View::addLocation('/path/to/your/views');

It might be easier if you namespace them though, just in case you have conflicting file names as your path is appended to the array so it will only cascade so far until it finds an appropriate match. Namespaced views are loaded with the double colon syntax.

View::addNamespace('theme', '/path/to/themes/views');

return View::make('theme::view.name');

You can also give addNamespace an array of view paths instead of a single path.