Passing Parameters

We can pass a parameter to our views from controller using view() helper. This helper accepts 2 parameters like this:

view($view_name, $params = [])

compact() - is a php function that creates array containing variables and their values.

In very simple explaination, passing parameters to views using compact look like this:

$pageTitle = "Login";
return view('login', compact('pageTitle'));

// The same as saying:
return view('login', ['pageTitle' => $pageTitle]));

// You can also add multiple like this:
return view('login', compact('pageTitle', 'users_data'));

Inside the view() helper function it will extract() the parameters so that you can use the parameters in your views.

extract() - Is the opposite of compact, this will import variables into the current symbol table from an array.

$pageTitle = "Login";
return view('login', compact('pageTitle'));

// In your views you can access the parameter by:
echo $pageTitle;

Views is the front-end side of your application. Where you fetch all of the logic from the controller. The first paramerter is the view you want to load. The second parameter is optional and it's the data you want to pass to a view.

The view contains the following:

require 'layouts/head.php';

    ...views content here

require 'layouts/footer.php';