Wouldn't it be cool if Laravel came with a few helper directives like nl2br? Well, hopefully, they will include it in the future. For now, I am going to show you how to set up a custom one yourself.

The Setup

First, open up your AppServiceProvider.php file from app/Providers.

Here we define, our blade directive in the boot() function as follows:

<?php namespace App\Providers; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Blade; use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider; class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider { /** * Register any application services. * * @return void */ public function register() { // } /** * Bootstrap any application services. * * @return void */ public function boot() { // Blade::directive('nl2br', function ($string) { return "<?php echo nl2br(htmlentities($string)); ?>"; }); } } 

The Usage

You can now use our custom-built @nl2br() directive in any our your Blade views.
An example:

<div class="description"> @nl2br($description) </div> 

That's All

Great, now you know just a bit more about the Laravel world. If you come up with more such directives I'd love to see them in the comments.

Thanks for reading.