Is it possible to assign a blade template to a model?

Instead of doing this:

@php $contact = Contact::find(1); @endphp
@include('contact', ['contact' => $contact])

I'd like to just do:

@php $contact = Contact::find(1); @endphp
{{ $contact }}

But latter obviously just spits out the model in json.

CodePudding user response：

It is possible with PHP's __toString() magic method: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.magic.php#object.tostring

Let's make an example for default User.php model.

First, create a blade file for that model, lets create that as /resources/views/model/user.blade.php and a dummy component;

<h1>{{ $user->name }}</h1>
<p>{{ $user->created_at->diffForHumans() }}</p>

Now make this default __toString() for User model.

Add this to app/Models/User.php ;

/**
 * @return string
 */
public function __toString(): string
{
    return view('model.user', ['user' => $this]);
}

Now you can test it directly in your routes/web.php ;

Route::get('test', function () {
    echo \App\Models\User::first();
});

Or try to echo it in any view as;

{!! $user !!}

You can't use {{ $user }} because you need that HTML tags, so you have to use it as {!! $user !!}