在CMS中选择页面视图/布局

Question

I am building a CMS and my goal is to allow administrator to choose page view / layout ( Fullwidth, Sidebar, etc. )

So my question is what is the best practice to do this...

I am thinking create in database Layouts with ID and layout_name, and then in controller return View::make('$layout_name');

Answer 1

There are probably different ways to achieve this. In my opinion it's better to keep the make method non-dynamic and to share the layout setup across all the views with View:share. After what you may need to do an if statement to specify how your layouts have to be used.

$layout_name = 'full_width'; // should be the result of the db query
View:share('layout', $layout_name); // use it in your controllers, wherever you want

And in the concerned views:

@if ($layout == 'full_width')
   @extends('layout.fullwidth')
@elseif ($layout == 'sidebar')
   @extends('layout.sidebar')
@endif

This solution assumes that you know the different types of layouts that can be used.