Laravel 5.8 - Blade - OR Operator - Solution

Laravel 5.8 – Blade – OR Operator 

OR operator in the PHP Laravel 5.7 blade template engine is deprecated.

On using this we get the undefined variable error on the development machine.

What OR operator used to do in BLADE?

OR operator used to save a few extra words of code on the developer machine.

Example

{{$testVariable or ‘TestValue’ }}

This will compile to

isset( $testVariable ) ?  $testVariable : ‘TestValue’;

What’s the solution then?

Laravel 5.8 – Blade – OR Operator 

Now since Laravel 5.7, this OR operator has been deprecated we can get the same result with PHP’s built-in ?? “null coalesce” operator


Example for the same as goes

{{$testVariable ??  ‘TestValue’ }}

So now we can use this null coalesce operator to get the desired result which OR operator was giving in the Blade templating engine.

 Keep Coding and Keep Smiling 🙂