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Laravel 5.0 Blade Changes

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Laravel 5.0 is not scheduled to be released until November, as it’s on a 6 month release cycle. But one of the changes that I’ve seen mentioned a few times is the new blade echo tags.

In v4 it included the following two styles: “{{” and “{{{“. The double curly bracket was a raw echo and the triple curly bracket escaped.

Currently in 5.0 both the double and triple curly brackets escape the variable and a new “{!! $var !!}” is for raw.

A common use case for raw is with form helpers:

{!! Form::open() !!}

I always found the v4 way of doing it too subtle and easy to overlook. For me, this is a welcome change. Also be sure and checkout this post showing all the new Laravel 5 features.

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Eric is the creator of Laravel News and has been covering Laravel since 2012.

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