Reintegrating Blade with Laravel using View engine event.

application/config/application.php

@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@
 		'Auth'       => 'Laravel\\Auth',
 		'Asset'      => 'Laravel\\Asset',
 		'Autoloader' => 'Laravel\\Autoloader',
+		'Blade'      => 'Laravel\\Blade',
 		'Bundle'     => 'Laravel\\Bundle',
 		'Cache'      => 'Laravel\\Cache',
 		'Config'     => 'Laravel\\Config',

application/start.php

@@ -112,6 +112,19 @@
 	return Lang::file($bundle, $language, $file);
 });
 
+/*
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+| Enable The Blade View Engine
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+|
+| The Blade view engine provides a clean, beautiful templating language
+| for your application, including syntax for echoing data and all of
+| the typical PHP control structures. We'll simply enable it here.
+|
+*/
+
+Blade::sharpen();
+
 /*
 |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | Set The Default Timezone

laravel/blade.php

@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+<?php namespace Laravel;
+
+class Blade {
+
+	/**
+	 * All of the compiler functions used by Blade.
+	 *
+	 * @var array
+	 */
+	protected static $compilers = array(
+		'echos',
+		'structure_openings',
+		'structure_closings',
+		'else',
+		'yields',
+		'section_start',
+		'section_end',
+	);
+
+	/**
+	 * Register the Blade view engine with Laravel.
+	 *
+	 * @return void
+	 */
+	public static function sharpen()
+	{
+		Event::listen(View::engine, function($view)
+		{
+			// The Blade view engine should only handle the rendering of views which
+			// end with the Blade extension. If the given view does not, we will
+			// return false so the View can be rendered as normal.
+			if ( ! str_contains($view->path, BLADE_EXT))
+			{
+				return false;
+			}
+
+			$compiled = path('storage').'views/'.md5($view->path);
+
+			// If the view doesn't exist or has been modified since the last time it
+			// was compiled, we will recompile the view into pure PHP from it's
+			// Blade representation, writing it to cached storage.
+			if ( ! file_exists($compiled) or (filemtime($view->path) > filemtime($compiled)))
+			{
+				file_put_contents($compiled, Blade::compile($view->path));
+			}
+
+			$view->path = $compiled;
+
+			// Once the view has been compiled, we can simply set the path to the
+			// compiled view on the view instance and call the typical "get"
+			// method on the view to evaluate the compiled PHP view.
+			return $view->get();
+		});
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Compiles the specified file containing Blade pseudo-code into valid PHP.
+	 *
+	 * @param  string  $path
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	public static function compile($path)
+	{
+		return static::compile_string(file_get_contents($path));
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Compiles the given string containing Blade pseudo-code into valid PHP.
+	 *
+	 * @param  string  $value
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	public static function compile_string($value)
+	{
+		foreach (static::$compilers as $compiler)
+		{
+			$method = "compile_{$compiler}";
+
+			$value = static::$method($value);
+		}
+
+		return $value;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Rewrites Blade echo statements into PHP echo statements.
+	 *
+	 * @param  string  $value
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	protected static function compile_echos($value)
+	{
+		return preg_replace('/\{\{(.+?)\}\}/', '<?php echo $1; ?>', $value);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Rewrites Blade structure openings into PHP structure openings.
+	 *
+	 * @param  string  $value
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	protected static function compile_structure_openings($value)
+	{
+		$pattern = '/(\s*)@(if|elseif|foreach|for|while)(\s*\(.*\))/';
+
+		return preg_replace($pattern, '$1<?php $2$3: ?>', $value);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Rewrites Blade structure closings into PHP structure closings.
+	 *
+	 * @param  string  $value
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	protected static function compile_structure_closings($value)
+	{
+		$pattern = '/(\s*)@(endif|endforeach|endfor|endwhile)(\s*)/';
+
+		return preg_replace($pattern, '$1<?php $2; ?>$3', $value);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Rewrites Blade else statements into PHP else statements.
+	 *
+	 * @param  string  $value
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	protected static function compile_else($value)
+	{
+		return preg_replace('/(\s*)@(else)(\s*)/', '$1<?php $2: ?>$3', $value);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Rewrites Blade @yield statements into Section statements.
+	 *
+	 * The Blade @yield statement is a shortcut to the Section::yield method.
+	 *
+	 * @param  string  $value
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	protected static function compile_yields($value)
+	{
+		$pattern = static::matcher('yield');
+
+		return preg_replace($pattern, '$1<?php echo \\Laravel\\Section::yield$2; ?>', $value);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Rewrites Blade @section statements into Section statements.
+	 *
+	 * The Blade @section statement is a shortcut to the Section::start method.
+	 *
+	 * @param  string  $value
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	protected static function compile_section_start($value)
+	{
+		$pattern = static::matcher('section');
+
+		return preg_replace($pattern, '$1<?php \\Laravel\\Section::start$2; ?>', $value);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Rewrites Blade @endsection statements into Section statements.
+	 *
+	 * The Blade @endsection statement is a shortcut to the Section::stop method.
+	 *
+	 * @param  string  $value
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	protected static function compile_section_end($value)
+	{
+		return preg_replace('/@endsection/', '<?php \\Laravel\\Section::stop(); ?>', $value);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Get the regular expression for a generic Blade function.
+	 *
+	 * @param  string  $function
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	protected static function matcher($function)
+	{
+		return '/(\s*)@'.$function.'(\s*\(.*\))/';
+	}
+
+}

laravel/core.php

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
 define('EXT', '.php');
 define('CRLF', "\r\n");
+define('BLADE_EXT', '.blade.php');
 define('DEFAULT_BUNDLE', 'application');
 define('MB_STRING', (int) function_exists('mb_get_info'));
 

laravel/laravel.php

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 | may be used by the developer.
 |
 */
+
 require 'core.php';
 
 /*

laravel/view.php

@@ -117,9 +117,9 @@ protected function path($view)
 
 		$view = str_replace('.', '/', $view);
 
-		// We delegate the determination of view paths to the view loader
-		// event so that the developer is free to override and manage
-		// the loading views in any way they see fit.
+		// We delegate the determination of view paths to the view loader event
+		// so that the developer is free to override and manage the loading
+		// of views in any way they see fit for their application.
 		$path = Event::first(static::loader, array($bundle, $view));
 
 		if ( ! is_null($path))
@@ -141,10 +141,17 @@ public static function file($bundle, $view)
 	{
 		$root = Bundle::path($bundle).'views/';
 
+		// Views may have either the default PHP fiel extension of the "Blade"
+		// extension, so we will need to check for both in the view path
+		// and return the first one we find for the given view.
 		if (file_exists($path = $root.$view.EXT))
 		{
 			return $path;
 		}
+		elseif (file_exists($path = $root.$view.BLADE_EXT))
+		{
+			return $path;
+		}
 	}
 
 	/**