How to clear compiled view for specific blade template

Question

PHP artisan view:clear command clears whole compiled views in an application. How to clear compiled output for specific view.

Answer 1

Simple answer: Write your own command.

How do i start? First of all, You must know that compiled views have different names than the original blade views.

What names do they have? Laravel calls sha1() in the full file path. So for example. The compiled file name of layouts/app.blade.php (comes with default installation).

in versions less than 5.2 md5() is used instead of sha1(),

5.2, 5.3 => sha1()
5.1, 5.0, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0 => md5()

Assuming your version is >= 5.2

sha1('C:\xampp\htdocs\myapp\resources\views/layouts/app.blade.php');

So file name will be 9407584f16494299da8c41f4ed65dcb99af82ae2.php

How do i do that then?

• Create new command that takes filename as an argument.
• Add views path for filename in fire() function. As i showed you before C:\xampp\htdocs\myapp\resources\views (view full path) + /layouts/app.blade.php (filename)

$path = 'C:\xampp\htdocs\myapp\resources\views' . '/layouts/app.blade.php';

• $path = sha1($path) . '.php'; To get the compiled filename.
• Check if filename exists in compiled views dir
• Delete file if exists

The command you'll have something like,

Note: If you have different view paths (Changed defaults), You must make changes on my code below.

<?php
namespace App\Console\Commands;
use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use RuntimeException;
class RemoveCompiled extends Command
{
    protected $signature = 'view:clearOne {file}';
    protected $description = 'Remove one compiled view!';
    public function handle()
    {
        $path = sha1($this->laravel['config']['view.paths'][0] . '/' . $this->argument('file'));
        $f =  $this->laravel['config']['view.compiled'] . '\\'. $path . '.php';
        if(!file_exists($f))
            return; //do whatever you want
        if(unlink($f))
            echo "File deleted!";
    }
}

Calling: php artisan view:clearOne layouts/app.blade.php