Laravel 4.1 Blade "if isset" shorthand
This blog post was originally published a little while ago. Please consider that it may no longer be relevant or even accurate.
Laravel 4.1 introduces a new shorthand for echoing out data in Blade, which is really nice.
{{ $variable or 'default' }}This shorthand actually expands out to a full isset call on the variable and returns the default value if false.
isset($variable) ? $variable : 'default'So if you’re not sure if something is going to appear in the view or not, here’s a nice way to test!