laravel compact() and ->with()

Question

I have a piece of code and I\'m trying to find out why one variation works and the other doesn\'t.

return View::make(\'gameworlds.mygame\', compact(\'fixture         


        

Answer 1

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('greeting', ['name' => 'James']);
});

    
        
Hello, {{ $name }}
    

or

public function index($id)
{
    $category = Category::find($id);
    $topics = $category->getTopicPaginator();
    $message = Message::find(1);

    // here I would just use "->with([$category, $topics, $message])"
    return View::make('category.index')->with(compact('category', 'topics', 'message'));
}