I was thinking what I could do is load is extend something like @extends('layout.users') and include the information at the top but the OCD in me wants to leave extend the same for every file.

Ok so this is the solution that I thought of I extend a different page for each blade but the layout that is being called just contains.

@include( 'includes.default' )

Page

@include( 'includes.default_end' )

This lets me get around putting specific html in my footer and header files since I know that I will have 10% of my pages that need some different layout. Looking for some feedback still to see if others who have been using blade/laravel longer think this is a sane solution.

zenry said:

you can extend multiple sections and even overwriting them. there is also a tag that allows you to append / prepend to the existing content.

aside from all this you can use variables

@extend( $MyVarThatWasSetInMyController )

Awesome, I was originally trying to stay away from in the page it should load through the controller. But that is what it is there for so... anyway I did what you said and I like it a lot more than my prior solution. Thanks for the help! Still getting use to blade and being able to use variables without php tags.