Single @php Blade directive does not work correctly when followed by a @endphp tag

[marcbelletre]

Laravel Version

10.17.1

PHP Version

8.2.7

Database Driver & Version

No response

Description

The documentation states that we can use a single @php directive like this:

@php($counter = 1)

It works fine until there is another block of raw PHP that uses the full syntax after.

@php($index = 'test')

@php echo $index; @endphp

In the ouput file the PHP end tag is missing:

<?php($index = 'test')

@php echo $index; ?>
<?php /**PATH /Users/marcbelletre/Sites/laravel/resources/views/welcome.blade.php ENDPATH**/ ?

I also tried with older versions of Laravel (8 & 9) and got the same issue.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Create a blade template with a single line @php directive and a block of raw PHP using the @php ... @endphp syntax
2. Add a route that renders the blade template
3. Open the URL in the browser

[crynobone]

For such usage it would be best to just use:

@php
$counter = 1;

echo $counter;
@endphp

or even

@php($counter = 1)

{{ $counter }}

[crynobone]

A similar PR has been rejected before: #45390 (comment)

[marcbelletre]

Ok but I think there should be a warning about this in the docs if this is a known issue. I struggled for a while because I couldn't see what was wrong in my code before noticing it was coming from a bug in Laravel itself.

I encountered this with roots/sage which is a package that makes a bridge between Wordpress and Laravel.

The default templates are using the following syntax:

@extends('layouts.app')

@section('content')
  @while(have_posts()) @php(the_post())
    ...
  @endwhile
@endsection

Because of this bug it is impossible to use any raw PHP tags inside the loop which is quite a problem. The only workaround is to replace the default @php(the_post()) call to @php the_post() @endphp