More Blade improvements… adds template inheritance.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Otwell <taylorotwell@gmail.com>

changes.txt

@@ -28,3 +28,6 @@ Changes for 3.1:
 	- Prepend table name to default index names in schema.
 	- Added for/else to Blade.
 	- Added View::render_each
+	- Able to specify full path to view (path: ).
+	- Blade extended views.
+	- Yield is now done via blade through {{ yield("content") }}
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laravel/helpers.php

@@ -451,3 +451,14 @@ function render_each($partial, array $data, $iterator, $empty = 'raw|')
 {
 	return Laravel\View::render_each($partial, $data, $iterator, $empty);
 }
+
+/**
+ * Get the string contents of a section.
+ *
+ * @param  string  $section
+ * @return string
+ */
+function yield($section)
+{
+	return Laravel\Section::yield($section);
+}
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laravel/view.php

@@ -73,7 +73,18 @@ class View implements ArrayAccess {
 	{
 		$this->view = $view;
 		$this->data = $data;
+
+		// In order to allow developers to load views outside of the normal loading
+		// conventions, we'll allow for a raw path to be given in place of the
+		// typical view name, giving total freedom on view loading.
+		if (starts_with($view, 'path: '))
+		{
+			$this->path = substr($view, 6);
+		}
+		else
+		{
 			$this->path = $this->path($view);
+		}
 
 		// If a session driver has been specified, we will bind an instance of the
 		// validation error message container to every view. If an error instance
@@ -327,7 +338,7 @@ class View implements ArrayAccess {
 	/**
 	 * Get the array of view data for the view instance.
 	 *
-	 * The shared view data will be combined with the view data for the instance.
+	 * The shared view data will be combined with the view data.
 	 *
 	 * @return array
 	 */
@@ -380,8 +391,16 @@ class View implements ArrayAccess {
 	 * @return View
 	 */
 	public function with($key, $value)
+	{
+		if (is_array($key))
+		{
+			$this->data = array_merge($this->data, $key);
+		}
+		else
 		{
 			$this->data[$key] = $value;
+		}
+
 		return $this;
 	}