Getting views folder path

Question

I am getting the views folder path with this: app_path()."/Views"

Is there any better or more solid way of getting the views folder path? I mean, just in case the view folder is moved to somewhere else and it still works.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes I guess it's possible to make it more prone to change. Just get it from the config like so:

Config::get('view.paths');

This is actually an array of paths (folders) for your views. To change it, just look at the /app/config/view.php config file. It should be quite self-explanatory from there.

If you can access $this->app somehow (e.g. in a ServiceProvider), you also can obtain the configured paths by doing:

$this->app['config']['view.paths']