Include .php file in Blade.php

Hard to debug without seeing the code or error if one is produced. You can add code blocks by using three backticks.

```
// Your code here.
```

Or using Paste, or GitHub Gist, Gist required a GitHub account though, but great if you need to show multiple files. And then you can link it by using the following markdown format.

[Link description](URL)

Didn't realize it deleted when I posted, I am using standard php file syntax for including other php files that I am familiar with.

I added the below code directly into the index.blade.php file within the dashboard view directory. I added my new php file that I am looking to call into the same directory.

// <?php
//      include "filename.php"
// ?>

Also, it is a 500 Server Error that I receive when reloading the page.

Are you wanting to use it as a component, if that's the case Laravel Blade has built-in support for components.

If you just want to include it, then you'll have issues with finding the right path, since Laravel caches views. Are you including it because of a single function? Depending on what that function does you have options.

You could extend Blade and add your own directive that handles what your function did.

Or you can made the functions available globally with the help of Composer and autoload the file. You do that by adding the path to the file in an array under a files key in your composer.json

"autoload": {
    "psr-4": {
        "App\\": "app/",
        "Database\\Factories\\": "database/factories/",
        "Database\\Seeders\\": "database/seeders/"
    },
    "files": [
        "path/to/function/file.php"
    ]
},

Then you need to update the autoloader by dumping it.

composer dump-autoload

With that you should be able to use any of your functions in Blade.

{{ function('arguments') }}

As for the 500 internal error, you can find the application logs under storage/logs, there should be a laravel.log file in there, it appends to the file so your latest logs entry will be at the bottom of the file.

Thank you, this was very helpful. I am looking for several functions within to be global functions so the composer autoload option works well for my use case.

I ran this and was able to reload my website and execute the code from my other function.

I did include the full file path in the composer.json. Do you know if I can shorten this down at all based on where it is located in the wave folder?

    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "App\\": "app/",
            "Database\\Factories\\": "database/factories/",
            "Database\\Seeders\\": "database/seeders/",
            "Wave\\": "wave/src/"
        },
        "files": [
            "C:/wamp64/www/wave/resources/views/themes/tailwind/dashboard/file.php"
        ]
    },

It will be relative to the project root I believe, or the composer.json which usually is in the project root. So in this case the path would be:

"files": [
    "wave/resources/views/themes/tailwind/dashboard/file.php"
]

Though I'd recommend keeping it out of the themes folder and only keeping your views and Blade components in there. You might've noticed the path includes resources/views.

I personally place my helper file in app/helpers.php, that's sort of the "standard" for Laravel.