Laravel 4 Controller Templating / Blade - Correct method? [closed]

Answer 1

I don't like either of them. Layouts are probably the weirdest part of Laravel. The controller version doesn't really make sense; all methods of the controller then require that view. The @yield version is a mess of boilerplate. I made up this "method specific layouts":

public function index()
{
    return View::make('layouts.main', [
        'layout_data' => 'sup'
    ])->nest('content', 'welcome', [
        'view_data' => 'sup'
    ]);
}

I think it should be mentioned in the docs that this is an option.