Custom loader class for CodeIgniter that implements Laravel's Blade templating engine

app-config-blade.php

<?php  if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

$config['views_path'] = APPPATH . 'views/blade/';
$config['cache_path'] = APPPATH . 'cache/blade/';

app-controllers-home1.php

<?php  if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Home extends CI_Controller {

	public function index()
	{
		// Prepare some test data for our views
		$array = explode('-', date('d-m-Y'));
		list($d, $m, $y) = $array;

		// Basic view with no data
		echo $this->load->blade('home.index');

		// Passing a single value
		echo $this->load->blade('home.index')->with('day', $d);

		// Multiple values with method chaining
		echo $this->load->blade('home.index')
			 ->with('day', $d)
			 ->with('month', $m)
			 ->with('year', $y);

		// Passing an array
		echo $this->load->blade('home.index', array(
			'day' => $d,
			'month' => $m,
			'year' => $y
		));
	}
}

app-controllers-home2.php

<?php  if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Home extends CI_Controller {

	public function index()
	{
		// Load the view into a variable
		$view = $this->load->blade('home.index');

		// Attach some data
		$view->with('time', date('H:i:s'));

		// Render the parsed view
		echo $view->get();
	}
}

app-core-MY_Loader.php

<?php  if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Illuminate\Blade\Environment;
use Illuminate\Blade\Loader;
use Illuminate\Blade\View;

class MY_Loader extends CI_Loader {

	public function __construct()
	{
		parent::__construct();
	}

	public function blade($view, array $parameters = array())
	{
		$CI =& get_instance();
		$CI->config->load('blade', true);

		return new View(
			new Environment(Loader::make(
				$CI->config->item('views_path', 'blade'),
				$CI->config->item('cache_path', 'blade')
			)),
			$view, $parameters
		);
	}
}

barenecesseties.php

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Illuminate\Blade\Environment;
use Illuminate\Blade\Loader;
use Illuminate\Blade\View;

function blade($view, array $parameters = array())
{
	return new View(
		new Environment(Loader::make(
			'path/to/blade/views',
			'path/to/blade/cache'
		)),
		$view, $parameters
	);
}

echo blade('home.index')->with('name', 'Dave');

compiler-fixes.php

// This updated method fixes block comments with a newline
// char immediately after the opening {{-- tag.
protected function compileComments($value)
{
	$value = preg_replace('/\{\{--(.*?)--\}\}/', "", $value);

	return preg_replace('/\{\{--(\n?)(.*?)--\}\}/s', "$1", $value);
}

composer.json

{
	"require": {
		"illuminate/blade": "dev-master",
		"illuminate/filesystem": "dev-master"
	}
}

home.php

<?php

class Home extends CI_Controller {

	public function index()
	{
		// Prepare some test data for our views
		$array = explode('-', date('d-m-Y'));
		list($d, $m, $y) = $array;

		// Basic view with no data
		echo $this->load->blade('home.index');

		// Passing a single value
		echo $this->load->blade('home.index')->with('day', $d);

		// Multiple values with method chaining
		echo $this->load->blade('home.index')
			 ->with('day', $d)
			 ->with('month', $m)
			 ->with('year', $y);

		// Passing an array
		echo $this->load->blade('home.index', array(
			'day' => $d,
			'month' => $m,
			'year' => $y
		));
	}
}

I think Blade got rolled into a more abstract package, so I had to make many modifications to the MY_Loader to get this work, but it's working well in my development environment now. I forked your gist and updated with my changes. Thanks for an excellent starting point!

Problem 1
- The requested package illuminate/blade could not be found in any version, there may be a typo in the package name.
Problem 2
- Installation request for illuminate/filesystem dev-master -> satisfiable by illuminate/filesystem[dev-master].
- illuminate/filesystem dev-master requires illuminate/contracts 5.4.* -> satisfiable by illuminate/contracts[5.4.x-dev] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.

Potential causes:

• A typo in the package name
• The package is not available in a stable-enough version according to your minimum-stability setting
  see https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#minimum-stability for more details.

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