Category "Views" tricks

If you know what nested sets are, and use lazychazer/laravel-nestedset package, and tried his example application (https://github.com/lazychaser/nestedset-app), then here is a snippet for replace his simple nav rendering to bootstrap (3.x) navbar compatible output. (Laravel 5 solution)

This trait allows you to save any column from any model into a location within the storage directory to allow the column to be blade compilable with view()->file($model->getViewableColumnPath('column_name')); The trait

You’re using Laravel 5 and you want to switch from less (which is used by default) to sass? Here is some steps that you can follow in order to make that transition.

When user clicks on "delete" button, open a confirmation box before deleting an item.

Iteratively display "page breadcrumbs" - ideal for a partial.

Auth::attempt($auth) giving problem. ErrorException in ClassLoader.php line 317: Uninitialized string offset: 0

Temporarily log in as another user, but switch back to the original user at any time. Inspired by the User Switching plugin for WordPress. I use this for testing data being shown based on user role.

Hi, I got the example by Dastan Turysbekov (http://laravelsnippets.com/snippets/menu-activated) and changed a little bit. It's a simple Macro to use with Active Menu. You can use parameters and attributes as well.

I like to set body id/class from within the child view (for css purposes). Previously I was passing this information to the view from the controller but decided I didn't like that, so I came up with this.