Check if variable exist in laravel's blade directive

Question

I\'m trying to create blade directive which echo variable (if variable defined) or echo \"no data\" if variable undefined.

This is my code in AppServiceProvider.ph

Answer 1

You can use the @isset blade directive to check whether the variable is set or not. Alternatively, if you have the default value for that variable you can directly use it as {{ $vatiable ?? 'default_value' }}. The ?? way is available in Laravel v5.7 onwards.

If you want to check for multiple variables at once, you can do it by applying AND operation to expression as @if(isset($var_one) && isset($var_two)).

There are also other ways (lengthy) using @if directive as @if(isset($variable)) but it's not recommended.

Some developer uses @ symbol for error control in a similar situation. The at-sign (@) is used as error control operator in PHP. When an expression is prepended with the @ sign, error messages that might be generated by that expression will be ignored. If the track_errors feature is enabled, an error message generated by the expression and it will be saved in the variable $php_errormsg. This variable will be overwritten on each error. The use of @ is very bad programming practice as it does not make the error disappear, it just hides them, and it makes debugging a lot worse since we can’t see what’s actually wrong with our code.