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Render Laravel blade template as string without escaped chars and line breaks?

I've a pretty complicated blade layout, it's not strictly HTML as I'm using it to construct code for mermaid diagrams (https://mermaid-js.github.io/).

The code is generating fine, but when I render the blade template to a string it outputs with escaped characters and line breaks eg:

$code = view('holiday.diagram')->render();

OUTPUT:

graph TD\npeople[\"<strong>PEOPLE<\/strong>\n<hr \/> <strong>PERSON FIRST NAME<\/strong>: FOO BAR <br \/><strong>Number of TRAVELLERS<\/strong>: 6<br \/>

How can I remove these escaped chars and display the code as is? I've tried htmlspecialchars-decode() but it does not remove them.

Solution

  • If you want it to be html, use method toHtml()

    view('holiday.diagram')->toHtml();