Calling function from (Laravel 8) Blade template file

Question

I have a blade component called OrderBox.php in app/View/Components. It has several public attributes I can access from the orderbox.blade.php template file.

However, there is a public function getShortTextByStatus($statusCode) in the OrderBox.php component file and when I call this function inside orderbox.blade.php template

{{ $getShortTextByStatus('EDIT') }}

I get the Undefined variable: shortTextByStatus error

I followed this: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/blade#component-methods but everything looks the same, what am I missing?

EDIT:

If I remove the $ I get the Call to undefined function getShortTextByStatus() error

{{ getShortTextByStatus('EDIT') }}

OrderBox.php

class OrderBox extends Component
{

    public $id;
    ....

    public function __construct()
    {
    //
    }

    public function render()
    {
        return view('components.orderbox');
    }

    public function getShortTextByStatus($statusCode)
    {
       return 'TEST';
    }

}

EDIT 2:

I noticed that x-orderbox actually should be x-order-box

With this, the {{ $getShortTextByStatus("EDIT") }} works !

B U T

does not pass attributes like :id="$id" or

something="static"

So the public $id; or public $something will be empty....

user_2641425 · Answer

So I made a couple of mistakes here

First of all, if the component name is OrderBox than the

tag should be

And then, if you want to pass data to the component (OrdeBox) you need to add the attributes to the constructor - special thanks to @gert-b (Gert B) from the comment section

class OrderBox extends Component
{

    public $id;
    public $otherId;
    ....

    public function __construct($id, $otherId)
    {
        $this->id = $id;
        $this->otherId;
    }

    ...
    ...
}

For some reason, I thought only mandatory attributes go to the constructor.

And don't forget, the attributes in the component class are camelCase like public $otherId; but in the template, it is kebab case: other-id

Calling function from (Laravel 8) Blade template file

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