Knife is an extension for Laravel's Blade template engine to support some handy directives that are not included in default blade syntax.

• @datetime, @date, @time - Display date-time, date and time as string respectively. Directives accepts all valid dates/objects that can be parsed by Carbon's parse method. You can use config file for knife to define date-time format to be used.
• @use - Import a class from a different namespace and use it in code without always specifying full class path.
• @nl2br - Display text with new lines replaced by <br/> tag.
• @escape - Display text by escaping quotes and other characters. It basically used addslashes() method. Its very useful when outputting text in JavaScript string.
• @breakpoint - Add an xdebug breakpoint at the specified place. Helps in debugging generated views.
• @set - Define a new variable.

This is first version of library. More directives will be added soon.

Note: Knife is only supported on Laravel 5.1 or later.

1. First add library using composer:

   composer require froiden/knife:~5.1

2. Add service provider to app.php:

   Froiden\Knife\KnifeServiceProvider::class

You can specify date-time formats to be used by in Knife's config file. To use this, export the config file as follows:

php artisan vendor:publish

The config file with name knife.php will be created in the config folder where all other configs are.

@use('Carbon\Carbon') // Observe that we have used only Carbon below instead of \Carbon\Carbon

@datetime('now') // 28th August 2015, 11:27 am
@date('now') // 28th August 2015
@time('2015-08-28 09:37:38') // 09:37 am

@set($count, 1)
{{ $count++ }} // 1
{{ $count++ }} // 2

@set($new)
{{ $new }}
{{ Carbon::now() }} // 2015-08-28 09:37:38

$bio = <<<HERE
Froiden Knife Plugin
nl2br demo
HERE;

@nl2br($bio)
/*
Froiden Knife Plugin<br/>
nl2br demo
*/

@escape("You're writing an unescaped string") \\ You\'re writing an unescaped string

We are open to suggestions. Please send your suggestions and feedback to develop the plugin further to: [email protected] or create an issue here on GitHub.

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