Shortcodes in your Laravel App

In this short video we'll show you how to inject code into your views using Middleware. You can create a shortcode in your view files and replace it with anything you would like using Middleware.

This will come in handy if you release a product and want to dynamically change content in your views from a shortcode. Here is the Middleware class that we used in the video:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;

class HomeShortcodeMiddleware
{
    /**
     * Handle an incoming request.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @param  \Closure  $next
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        $response = $next($request);

        if(!method_exists($response, 'content')):
            return $response;
        endif;

        $content = str_replace('<!--[shortcode_hello]-->', '<!--[shortcode_hello]-->Hello There', $response->content());

        $response->setContent($content);

        return $response;
    }
}

Hope you find this useful. Thanks :)