How do I pass a variable to the layout using Laravel' Blade templating?

For future Google'rs that use Laravel 5, you can now also use it with includes,

@include('views.otherView', ['variable' => 1])

In the Blade Template : define a variable like this

@extends('app',['title' => 'Your Title Goes Here'])
@section('content')

And in the app.blade.php or any other of your choice ( I'm just following default Laravel 5 setup )

<title>{{ $title or 'Default title Information if not set explicitly' }}</title>

This is my first answer here. Hope it works.Good luck!

I was able to solve that problem by adding this to my controller method:

    $title = 'My Title Here';
    View::share('title', $title);

$this->layout->title = 'Home page'; did not work either.

Simplest way to solve:

view()->share('title', 'My Title Here');

Or using view Facade:

use View;

...

View::share('title', 'My Title Here');

It appears as though I can pass variables to the entire layout using attributes on the layout object, for example to solve my problem I was able to do the following:

$this->layout->title = 'Home page';

Following is simple solution worked for me.

In layout

    <title>@yield('Page-Title') </title>

In your blade file 

@section('Page-Title')
My Page Title
@endsection 

class PagesController extends BaseController {
    protected $layout = 'layouts.master';

    public function index()
    {
        $this->layout->title = "Home page";
        $this->layout->content = View::make('pages/index');
    }
}

At the Blade Template file, REMEMBER to use @ in front the variable.

...
<title>{{ $title or '' }}</title>
...
@yield('content')
...

just try this simple method: in controller:-

 public function index()
   {
        $data = array(
            'title' => 'Home',
            'otherData' => 'Data Here'
        );
        return view('front.landing')->with($data);
   }

And in you layout (app.blade.php) :

<title>{{ $title }} - {{ config('app.name') }} </title>

Thats all.

if you want to get the variables of sections you can pay like this:

$_view      = new \View;
$_sections  = $_view->getFacadeRoot()->getSections();
dd($_sections);
/*
Out:
array:1 [▼
  "title" => "Painel"
]
*/

I have my layout file defined as a component. I configured the component to receive a variable as an argument. I have my variable defined in my controller as the full DB CMS Model passed in a return view to the blade file. From there, I simply pass the variable when calling the component from within the blade file. Please note that doing it this way requires the long form using ":". I can't get it to recognize the variable inside the component call using the short form.

My controller:

    public function show($id)
    {
        $document = Document::Post()->findOrFail($id);

        return view('pages.blog.post.show-post')
            ->with("document", $document);
    }

My component call within the view "show-post"

<x-layout.layout-master
    :document=$document   
>

Inside the master, the $document variable is now directly available and I can access anything from the Model.

The primary reason that I needed to do this is that I store default layout variables defined as attributes in the Model based on the document type, every html page starts from a document record. Sometimes I need to override those defaults.

I have override variables defined in my component, set with default = null. When needed, I add an explicit value to the override variable when calling layout-master. Inside layout-master, i use the override values if explicitly set to something other than null, otherwise I use the defaults from the document record to define the final layout of the html page.

I have just now worked this out for the first time and it seems to work so far.

You can try:

public function index()
{
    return View::make('pages/index', array('title' => 'Home page'));
}

$data['title'] = $this->layout->title = 'The Home Page';
$this->layout->content = View::make('home', $data);

I've done this so far because I needed in both the view and master file. It seems if you don't use $this->layout->title it won't be available in the master layout. Improvements welcome!