php laravel blade template not rendering

Question

I am attempting to setup a basic page using Laravel and twitter bootstrap. I installed Laravel and got the generic "you're here" or w/e image so that seems shiny. For twitter bootstrap, I added in my /public folder the twitter bootstrap files under /resources/js, /resources/css, and /resources/img.

So now I'm trying to make a template for my views, where basically the twitter bootstrap .css files are output in my head tag and the bootstrap.min.js and jquery.js script includes are output just before my closing body tag.

So this is what I have setup:

laravel/app/routes.php

Route::get('/', function()
{
        return View::make('hello');
});

laravel/app/views/hello.php

@extends('layouts.master')

@section('content')
    <p>This is my body content.</p>
@stop

laravel/app/views/layouts/master.blade.php

<html>
  <head>
    @section('head')
      <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
      <link href="/resources/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen">
    @show
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="container">
      @yield('content')
    </div>

  @section('footer_scripts')
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery.js"></script>
    <script src="/resources/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
  @show
  </body>
</html>

But it the blade template doesn't seem to be rendering. This is the output I get:

@extends('layouts.master') @section('content')
This is my body content.

@stop

That's how it looks on-page as well as in the view-source. No html tag or script includes; nothing. I must be missing something basic, and I've tried looking through the Laravel docs, but I can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong.. can someone point me in the right direction?

The Alpha The Alpha · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-22T02:02:44

To use a blade template you must have the .blade in file name, for example in your case it should be

hello.blade.php

Otherwise, it won't render. Read more on Laravel Site. Here is an example from one of my testing projects (index.blade.php), since you had a typo @extends('layout.master') it should be something like this

@extends('layouts.master')

@section('content')
This is a sample of laravel 4 using blade template engine.
This is home page using HomeController and home.blade template.
@stop

php laravel blade template not rendering

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