Laravel nesting child views

Question

All of us know that Laravel allows us to nest child view easily:

return View::make("myView")->nest("sidebar", "sidebar");

But what if I need the sidebar in my every view. That seems awkward to nest it each time. specially that there are many nested views such as : footer, header, navigation, sidebar.

Is there a way to have a nested view without explicitly declaring it each time?

I don't want to use Blade Engine .

Answer 1

I believe you can attach a view composer to the layout specified in your BaseController .

Something like:

View::composer('layout', function($view)
{
    $view->with('sidebar', 'sidebar');
});

You can put this code on routes.php or create a composers.php in app folder.