Laravel: how to render only one section of a template?

Question

I\'m trying to use pjax on my site, which means that for a full page request I render the whole template (this is normal behaviour), but on pjax requests I would like to ren

Answer 1

This is kind of an old question but I would like to throw down another solution.

Lets say you have a view layout called main.blade.php and another view that extends main called page.blade.php

main.blade.php

    

    @section('head')
        
    @show



    @yield('content')

    @section('footer')
        
        
    @show

page.blade.php

@extends('main')

@section('content')
    

        This is a rendered page
    
@stop

Just a simple basic template to get things started. In your controller if you return a View::make('page') you will get the complete HTML but Laravel provides a way to return specific sections. Here is an example of how to display the content you want based on if its an ajax call or not from within your controller:

my_controller.php

function get_index() {
    $view = View::make('page');

    if(Request::ajax()) {
        $sections = $view->renderSections(); // returns an associative array of 'content', 'head' and 'footer'

        return $sections['content']; // this will only return whats in the content section

    }

    // just a regular request so return the whole view

    return $view;
}

Now when you make an ajax call to the page it will only return the content section rather than the entire HTML.