Merge pull request #550 from davzie/develop

Implemented View::exists function

laravel/view.php

@@ -110,12 +110,12 @@ class View implements ArrayAccess {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Get the path to a given view on disk.
-	 *
-	 * @param  string  $view
-	 * @return string
+	 * Allows people to check if a view passed in exists, handy for certain types of CMS development
+	 * @param  string  $view        	The view name (ex. site.home)
+	 * @param  boolean $return_path 	Setting to TRUE will return the path found if it exists
+	 * @return string / boolean
 	 */
-	protected function path($view)
+	public static function exists($view, $return_path = false)
 	{
 		list($bundle, $view) = Bundle::parse($view);
 
@@ -127,6 +127,21 @@ class View implements ArrayAccess {
 		$path = Event::first(static::loader, array($bundle, $view));
 
 		if ( ! is_null($path))
+		{
+			return $return_path ? $path : true;
+		}
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Get the path to a given view on disk.
+	 *
+	 * @param  string  $view
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	protected function path($view)
+	{
+		if ($path = $this->exists($view,true))
 		{
 			return $path;
 		}