Include big piece of HTML in Ajax callback

So there's this method available on the View facade that does something pretty neat.

This method is called renderSections()

Accessing this method goes a little bit like this:

// Make view, with variable for example
$view = View::make('path.to.view')->with('name', 'JohnDoe');
return $view->renderSections()

Before we take a look at what this returns us, we must first look at our application layout.

If we have this for example:

<html>
   <body>
   <div>@yield('content')</div>
  @section('sidebar')

  @show
  </body>
</html>

Our renderSections() method will return us an array of the content we filled these sections with, for example:

array (size=2)
  'content' => string ' <div class='left well pull-left'>
      <h2>Sheikh Heera</h2>
      <p>Contact: 0123456789</p>
   </div>
' (length=100)
  'sidebar' => string ' <div class='right well pull-right'>
      <h1>Sidebar</h1>
      <u>
         <li>ListOne</li>
         <li>ListTwo</li>
         <li>ListThree</li>
      </ul>
   </div>
' (length=148)

So, we can effectively build our html string for use with ajax like so :

if(Request::ajax()) {
    $view = View::make('card');
    $view = $view->renderSections();
    return join($view, '');
}

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