The blade template engine can be used with codeigniter? - php

Question

The template engine called blade can be used with codeigniter or pure php? I know that it can be used with laravel and I'd like to know if also can be used with any other php framework or with pure php

Answer 1

Blade can be used stand-alone in PHP.
This means you can comfortably use it in CodeIgniter.
https://github.com/PhiloNL/Laravel-Blade
Then again, you will need composer for that.

Answer 2

Alternatively you could use this CodeIgniter Library to simulate Blade: CodeIgniter Slice-Libray
It works pretty like Blade and it was designed directly for CodeIgniter!

Answer 3

For the record and as answer to another post:
I tested many libraries to run blade outside Laravel (that i don't use) and most (with all respect of the coders) are poor hacks of the original library that simply copied and pasted the code and removed some dependencies yet it retains a lot of dependencies of Laravel.
I created an alternative for blade that its free (MIT license, i.e. close source/private code is OK) in a single file and without a single dependency of an external library. You could download the class and start using it, or you could install via composes (composer require eftec/bladeone). So even composer is optional.
https://github.com/EFTEC/BladeOne
https://packagist.org/packages/eftec/bladeone
Its 100% compatible sans the Laravel's own features (extensions).

Answer 4

You can use BladeView library for CI.
NB: I ported this library
class Welcome extends CI_Controller {
public function __construct() {
parent::__construct();
$this->load->library("bladeview");
}
public function renderView(){
$data=array(
"name"=>"Jhon",
"age"=>21
);
$this->bladeview->render("test", $data);
}
public function renderString(){
$data=array(
"name"=>"Jhon",
"age"=>21
);
$string="Hello I'm \{{$name}}. My age is \{{$age}}";
$this->bladeview->render($string, $data,false);
}
}
then in view.blade.php you can render like you do in laravel blade.
Hello my name is {{$name}}. My Age is {{$age}}.
Output:
Hello my name is Jhon. My Age is 21.

Answer 5

I have done a full write up here: http://mstd.eu/index.php/2017/03/02/using-the-laravel-blade-templating-engine-in-codeigniter-3/
Basically, include the package with composer (you need to set CI up to use composer), then create a blade instance passing it your view and cache folder like so:
$blade = new BladeInstance(__DIR__ . "/../views", __DIR__ . "/../cache/views");
echo $blade->render("index");